Matt Bomer Quotes
It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
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On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
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They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
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I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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But every class struggle is a political struggle.
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To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values.
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As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
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It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
