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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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I do think that the desire to permanently alter your body is triggered by this easy access to Photoshop on your phone.
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
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Choose equality.
