Matthew Heineman Quotes

I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

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• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy
  • Equality
  • Be Happy

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Body

• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Party

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I'm not averse to telling people off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Telling
  • Off

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Evil
  • Heaven
  • Place

• One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

  

  Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Subliminal

• Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

  

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Humanity

• Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Women
  • Dream
  • inspirational

• I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver as I stare at myown body. I don't break eye contact until I blow my load. Not once do I actually touch myself.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Morning

• I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women