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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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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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better.
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Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.
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There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.
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I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
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The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
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Choose equality.