Matthew Heineman Quotes
Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I never was a very good singer.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I lost my confidence.
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I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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It's crazy enough to be the person crawling through the bushes in Northern Ireland with a telescopic lens taking pictures - there are crazy people out there. But the idea that people want to go to sites and find out those spoilers... it's like if there was a website called Last Pages of Great Books, would you read that?
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.
