Matt Ryan Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
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I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.
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You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
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A lot of companies are global.
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I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.
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It looks good. I think the dog will be happy.
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In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.
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Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.
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'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.
