Matthew Walker Quotes
Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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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.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He's done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Work isn't really work for me.
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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
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Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.
