Matthew Arnold Quotes
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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If you aren't winning, we are not going to be happy.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
