Mattie Stepanek Quotes

Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

Mattie Stepanek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 17, 1990 - June 22, 2004

Topics

WorldLegacyYouWantTouchMatters

When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country.

Andrew Solomon

HatePeopleYouDownCountryMoral

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Meg Rosoff

GreatWritingThinkingBetterSkill

We should care about what is going on in the world.

John Legend

WorldCareGoingShouldAbout

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

Metro Boomin

HistoryLegacyPlanAtlantaHip-Hop

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

Robert E. Howard

WritingBookAdviceYearNeverAid

All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.

Ronnie Chan

FamilyMotherMoneyLivingSheBig

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Mike Singletary

HeartBestRespondPlayersWho

All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.

Michelle Phan

BeautyBusinessCommunityBestMe

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

LoveFreedomCourageArtSoulMe

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

Michael Mina

CookingKitchenKidStartedScrew

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

Diane Arbus

YouMoreGeneralSpecific

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

Dierks Bentley

MusicListeningGuitarPlayRock

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