Matthew Arnold Quotes
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
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If you do something bad, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It means you had bad judgment.
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I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
