Chris Matthews Quotes
It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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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've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm sort of a strange bird.
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The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
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It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
