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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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.
Donald Newhouse
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A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.
Jon Gruden
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Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Ezra Taft Benson
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What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
Jesse Kellerman
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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
