Matthew Simpson Quotes
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!
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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
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An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
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I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.
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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
