Matthew Arnold Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.
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Nichts wird so oft unwiederbringlich versäumt wie eine Gelegenheit, die sich täglich bietet.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.
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New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.
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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
