Dan Mathews Quotes
Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
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Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
