Matthew Thomas Skiba Quotes
I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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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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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.
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Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.
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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.
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I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."
