Chris Matthews Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
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Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
