Daniel Matsunaga Quotes
You don't really choose where you're born, but in our hearts, we can choose where we belong to.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
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It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
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What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.
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You don't really choose where you're born, but in our hearts, we can choose where we belong to.
