Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.
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An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife.
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Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
