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 had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Girlfriend
  • Boyfriend

• I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • School
  • Water
  • Boyfriend

• I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Fall
  • Wedding
  • Boyfriend

• I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• What I tell a girl is, your six-pack hot boyfriend right now, in six years, will be balding and maybe have a paunch. But I make you laugh every five minutes today, and I'll make you laugh 20 years from now; that's not going to go away.

  

  Vir Das
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Relationship

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

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Boyfriend