Uncle Kracker (Matthew Shafer) Quotes
Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.
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Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.
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The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
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People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'
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You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
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I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.
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When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
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We're thrilled to be a part of PNC's longstanding commitment to early childhood learning. Their generosity will help us expand the DonorsChoose.org platform to serve Head Start classrooms nationwide, ensuring that many more pre-K teachers have resources they need to give their students a solid educational foundation.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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My default state is wariness.
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I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
