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.
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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.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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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.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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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.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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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.
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I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
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A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw brownie, and I thought it would work even better if I blended them in a food processor. So I went and bought one specially. When my boyfriend at the time came over to try the results, he took one bite and spat it out - I'd left the plastic on the blades.
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I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.
