Matthew Scully Quotes

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

Matthew Scully

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • Think

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Worst
  • Survive
  • Through

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Being
  • Abortion
  • Con

• I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Better

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

  

  John Chrysostom
  • God
  • Men
  • Law

• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  

  Bill Condon

• This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Creatures
  • Faults
  • Faultless

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Worry

• The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

  

  Matthew Scully
  • Truth
  • House
  • Animal