Chris Matthews Quotes

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• I'm more interested in producing than acting.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Acting
  • More
  • Interested

• I boxed 15 years in a club.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Years
  • Club
  • Boxed

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Independent

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Like
  • Anonymity
  • Umbrella

• I wrote my first play when I was eight.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Play
  • First
  • Eight

• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Me
  • Harsh

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Art
  • Technology

• I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Acting
  • Camera

• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eye
  • Ever
  • Public Eye

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

  

  William Bennett
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Brain

• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

  

  Edwin Starr
  • History

• When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection - why is that? Maybe you've met before? Maybe you've met in another life? Anything's possible.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • Life
  • Why
  • Connection

• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  

  Carl Pope
  • Energy
  • Belief
  • Republican

• We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

  

  Chris Matthews