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

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• 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

• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Engage

• 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 learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Not Afraid

• Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Business
  • Start
  • Christmas

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Night
  • Running
  • Road

• I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.

  

  Vali Nasr
  • Mind
  • American

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

  

  Chris Matthews