Matthew Arnold Quotes
We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.
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When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
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I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.
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What I bring to the table to help my team is that I'm never going to quit.
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I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do. Some people refer to it as indulging in my instincts and artistic bent. I call it just showing off, which was what I did from about three years of age on.
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If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.
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If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'
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We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
