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 cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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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 think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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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 think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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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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I would say I came from upper middle class family.
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I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
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I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
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I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
