Matt Dillon Quotes

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

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• Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Black

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • People
  • Art
  • Day

• I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Me
  • Training
  • Courage

• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Down

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better

• Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • You
  • Run
  • Fantasy

• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Going
  • Hip Hop
  • Bear

• The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Environment
  • Will
  • Pollution

• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Management
  • Short

• I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Good
  • Hero
  • Guitar

• Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Rest

• I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politician

• We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • May
  • Victory
  • Contentment

• My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Faults
  • My Love

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.

  

  Brian Thomas Littrell The Backstreet Boys
  • Emotions
  • Boyfriend
  • Loving

• I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Boyfriend