Matt Smith Quotes
History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.
