Matt Dillon Quotes

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

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• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Well
  • Jews
  • Middle East

• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Political
  • Interesting
  • Try

• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Day
  • Boy
  • Child

• Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Simple
  • Personality
  • Said

• In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Team
  • Military
  • Red

• Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Singing

• Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Doing

• All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.

  

  Pablo Neruda

• Business never rests.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Business

• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • Why

• State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Important
  • Social
  • Economic

• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

  

  John Wells
  • Writing
  • Solitude

• If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Man
  • Study

• What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?

  

  Barbara Crossette
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Doubt

• It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

  

  Matt Dillon