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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There are no unwinnable wars.
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Music will never stop - it can never stop. I will continue to sing for my fans till the end of time.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything. It didn't matter what it was - it was just 'no.'
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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
