Matthew Fox Quotes

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • World
  • Best
  • Jesus

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• '24' is such an iconic show.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Show
  • Iconic

• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Me
  • Clear

• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Kind
  • British

• No one wants peace more than me.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Me
  • Peace
  • More

• I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Pride
  • Fact
  • Take

• I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Remember
  • Night

• I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Love
  • Job
  • Parents

• I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Feel
  • Learned
  • Students

• L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Business
  • Creative

• No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Men
  • Goal
  • Hunger

• I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.

  

  James Comey
  • Power
  • Fear

• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Reason
  • Slave

• I left home when I was 17, because I couldn't get along with my second stepfather, from Denmark. At that age young people can be very brave.

  

  Anna Karina
  • Home
  • Age
  • Brave

• We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.

  

  William Segal
  • Needs
  • Human
  • Seems

• I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

  

  Matthew Fox