Matthew Walker Quotes
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible.
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Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.
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My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
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A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.
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I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.
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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
