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

• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Never
  • Goal

• 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

• If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Meaning

• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  

  William Golding
  • Law
  • Hunting
  • Agree

• If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Opponent

• When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • War
  • Chinese

• Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

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

  

  Matt Dillon