Matthew Henry Quotes
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.
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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
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The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.
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The better day, the worse deed.
