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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Action
  • Religion

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• 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?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Forever
  • Sacrifice
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• 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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
  • Tolerance

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• 'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Heart

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Thinking

• We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Good
  • Live
  • Running

• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Money

• I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Appreciate

• What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

  

  William Matthews
  • Understanding
  • Every
  • Lasting