Matt Bomer Quotes
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I like things simple.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Safety from feeling shamed, admonished, or judged, and to bolster the courage to tolerate, face, and process the reality of what has happened.
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We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.
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...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.
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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
