Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

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• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
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  • Been

• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • End
  • Doing

• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • War
  • Decision

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Health
  • New
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• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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  • Film
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• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
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  • Mistake

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Different
  • Character
  • Worry

• My family is not so different from the rest of America. I think people love to see that, 'Oh, just because she's on television and in Hollywood, I can still relate to her.'

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • People
  • World
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• People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • People
  • Remember
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• Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Thinking

• I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen
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