Matt Hammitt Quotes
Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
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We should have a banquet on the day haters die.
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Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation’s capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.
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I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.
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I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.
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Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.
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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.
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One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.
