Dave Matthews Quotes
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so, that didn't have anything to do with 9/11, didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
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He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
