Matthew Fox Quotes

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Matthew Fox

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Always
  • Effort
  • Try

• I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Ambition

• I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Earth
  • Next
  • Allow

• All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • You
  • Clean

• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Purple

• I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Art
  • Cutting
  • Architecture

• One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Care

• I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Enjoy
  • Playing

• If a close ally of Iran like Syria went to Iran and said, 'This peace is in our interest,' what do you think would they do? I can tell you they have never opposed any of our peace moves since 1991.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Think
  • You
  • Peace

• We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Intelligent

• The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Hand

• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Universe

• I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • Magic
  • Same

• I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Growth
  • Economic
  • Protection

• I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

  

  Matthew Fox