Matthew McGrory Quotes
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.
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As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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A lot of guys I know loved 'Sex and the City.' They'll take it to their grave, but they watched every episode of it.
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Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.
