Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
