Chris Matthews Quotes
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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My mom keeps khabar of everything, so I don't feel lonely.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
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When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
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If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.
