Christy Mathewson Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't know anything about music.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
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We are facing someone Iran who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
