Matthew Arnold Quotes
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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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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I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.
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In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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I'd definitely like to be one of the best golfers in the world, of all time.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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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.
