Mattie Stepanek Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't like controversy.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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I'm an outsider.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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I want an opportunity to fight the best in the world and make millions of dollars doing it.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
