Chris Matthews Quotes

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

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• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

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• Texas is a pretty free state.

  

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

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• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

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• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

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• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

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• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

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• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

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• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

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• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

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• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

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• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  

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  • Friends
  • Recognize

• It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

  

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• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  

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• I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

  

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  • Great
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• Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
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• The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Real
  • Relationship
  • Loyalty