Uncle Kracker (Matthew Shafer) Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.
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So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.
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Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.
