Matthew Walker Quotes

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • School
  • Child

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Almost

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Will
  • Seeing
  • Racial

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Think
  • Car

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Inspiration
  • Model

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • City
  • First
  • Academic

• Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Mistake
  • Debate
  • Campaign

• I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Sleep