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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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
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Choose equality.
