Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
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When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
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I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.
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I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
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Choose equality.
