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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In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.
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We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
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A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.
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I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.
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You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.
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The better day, the worse deed.
