Dave Matthews Quotes
Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Quotes to Explore
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.
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Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
