Chris Matthews Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
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What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.
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The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.
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I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.
