Matthew Shafer (Uncle Kracker) Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
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I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.
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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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Well, it's great that critics are comparing
