Matthew Arnold Quotes
I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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She could only realize that she herself - her present self - was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.
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The music, yearning like a God in pain.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
