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 never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
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In Congress, I've advocated for an all-of-the-above energy policy that identifies and promotes alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass and hydropower.
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I love color and I love to dress like a woman.
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
