William Matthews Quotes
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
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I definitely have had fights with best friends. Some of them have led to me and said friend not being friends anymore, but it always turned out to be for the better. I think if you fight with someone, and you can just never reconcile, that just goes to show that maybe you shouldn't have been friends in the first place.
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Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
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This season I've been on more of a plant-based diet, getting away from all the animals and all that. I had to get away from that. So my energy is up, my body feels amazing. Just understanding what the diet is like for me and what’s beneficial for me for having the highest energy out here and being able to sustain it at a very high level.
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What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
