Dan Mathews Quotes

Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

Dan Mathews

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• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

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• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

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• I take my work seriously.

  

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• I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

  

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• I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

  

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

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• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

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• I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

  

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• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  

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• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

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• Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

  

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• Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • People
  • Differences
  • Especially