Matt Dillon Quotes

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

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• One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Never
  • Changes

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Hard
  • Really
  • Unfinished

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • May
  • Want
  • Walking

• The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Words
  • Day

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I've got to be sensible sometimes.

  

  T-Pain
  • Sometimes
  • Got
  • Sensible

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Football
  • Fighting
  • Start

• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • First
  • Wait
  • Second

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Important
  • Respect

• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Technology
  • Identity
  • Everyday

• I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Style

• As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Hood

• If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Social

• In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

  

  Matt Dillon