Matthew Perry Quotes

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Matthew Perry

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Others

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Simple

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Band

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Reading
  • Loved

• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • True

• I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Live
  • Father
  • Strong

• When I was cast for 'Walking Dead,' I was still doing 'Lone Ranger,' so I have my 'Lone Ranger' look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache.

  

  Lew Temple
  • Walking
  • Professional

• Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Growth
  • Chinese

• At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Technology

• In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.

  

  Jim Brown
  • World
  • Perfect

• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Life
  • Daily
  • Sobriety

• When trying to locate something, search your mind first.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Search

• I will support the Republican nominee.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Support

• There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

  

  John Ciardi
  • Sobriety

• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

  

  Neil Farber
  • Computer
  • Written
  • Album

• We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Rules
  • Opera
  • Expensive Group

• Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Dark
  • Marriage
  • Liar

• The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Sobriety