Chris Matthews Quotes
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.
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If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
