Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

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• What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

  

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• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

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• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

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• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

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• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

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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.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

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• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

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• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  

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• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

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• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

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• If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

  

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• There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

  

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• Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

  

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  

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• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
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  • War