Matthew Arnold Quotes

This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • People
  • Never
  • Try

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Step

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Sleep
  • I Can
  • Luxury

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Age
  • You

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Work

• First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

  

  Jon Lovitz
  • People
  • Country

• Whate’er he did was done with so much ease,In him alone 't was natural to please.

  

  John Dryden
  • Done
  • Alone

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • May

• This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Alone