Matthew Davis Quotes
I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.
