Matthew Walker Quotes

If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.

Matthew Walker

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NatureMotherTimeSleepSurvive

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

Jewel

FatSheDoubleHerWhereStunt

People always grow and mature.

Jesse Jackson

PeopleGrowMatureAlways

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Ama Ata Aidoo

GodPeopleBoredWormsWhoEven

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

Amado Boudou

ProblemsLongHandDeadLong Term

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

Steve Martin

LearningSuccessMeComedyFame

My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.

Sid Bernstein

SuccessGoodMusicPeopleLoved

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick

LifeCommunicationConnectionsLong

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Philip Yancey

LoveChangePowerParentsLimits

I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

LifeWorldFirstRealSeeThings

I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

Tiya Sircar

I AmChildCollegeImmigrantsActor

'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'

Martin Cruz Smith

BookTwinsSingleHighFilmCore

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.

Klaus Kinski

HatePeopleDrivingDeadTaxiBeen

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