Adrian Matejka Quotes
Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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He has given me several blockbuster albums in all these years, and DSP is the man behind many of the best songs in my career.
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I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.
