Matthew Arnold Quotes
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Those who go along get along.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.
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Experience yourself in silence.
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The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
