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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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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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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The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
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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 think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
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I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
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My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
