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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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal
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If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Meg Wolitzer
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I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
Kelly Masterson
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So that's Godzilla, he's ultimately going to get you regardless of what you do. Maybe the people who made the American Godzilla film were scared of that. They didn't want him to represent that, to represent something we couldn't deal with because, "We're American's, we can deal with anything".
Brad Warner
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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
Janet Jackson
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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
