Mattie Stepanek Quotes
God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.
Quotes to Explore
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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Think of God more often than thou breathest.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them.
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Look at bread, and see it as a Dairy Milk Cadbury's chocolate bar, and say to yourself, 'OK, you don't need that.' Bread is bad.
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God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.
