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?
William Matthews
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
AJ McLean
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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.
Camille Paglia
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney
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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?
Rabbi Hillel
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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.
Gavin Newsom
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
Rand Paul
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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.
Edmund White
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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.
Taraji P. Henson
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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.
Felice Picano
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
Barack Obama
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I get weepy even watching the news.
Katherine Kelly
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I got it: stay away from cocaine and heroin.
Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
Warren Bennis
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
Frances Wright
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I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
William H. Macy
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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?
William Matthews
