Matthew Arnold Quotes
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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The Democratic voters of the 26th district know me well, and I am confident I will have their support.
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Metro Atlanta has virtually unlimited economic potential.
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The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay
