Matthew Modine Quotes

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine

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• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Japanese
  • Companies
  • Lacking

• I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Girl
  • Door

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Real
  • Pain

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• 'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Amazing

• Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pride

• If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Risk
  • Run

• His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Time
  • Culture

• Languages are true analytical methods.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • True
  • Languages
  • Methods

• We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

  

  Matthew Modine
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great