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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.
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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
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I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.
