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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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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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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Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.
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Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.
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I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.
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A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.
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If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
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My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
