Dave Matthews Quotes
The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
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The game was in our hands. We led for 46 minutes. It was a basic collapse by our team in the fourth quarter.
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The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
