Matthew Vasquez (Matthew Logan Vasquez) Quotes
My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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I've played for a lot of tough crowds.
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Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
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I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.
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The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
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My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
