Nate Mendel Quotes
If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Time will heal everything.
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I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
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Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.
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Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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'I'm sure you didn’t mean to hurt anyone.'Madoc Roswyn laughed a soft forlorn laugh. 'The sad truth is that I didn’t care-which may be worse.'
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If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
