Matthew Shafer (Uncle Kracker) Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.
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What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Trust is more important than fear.
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Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes.
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates.
