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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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.
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You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
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We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
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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.
