Mattie Stepanek Quotes
Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Unfortunately, I had to pull out of Vancouver. I'm really sorry; I didn't expect to go this far in Rogers Cup, and I just wanted to say, just apologize.
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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Set the cart before the hors.
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I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
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Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.
