F. David Mathews Quotes
All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.
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People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.
