Chris Matthews Quotes

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

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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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Light
  • Nobody
  • Italy

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Real
  • Book

• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Something
  • Say
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Period

• I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Game
  • Learning
  • Jeopardy

• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • I Think
  • Hurts
  • Sick Man

• As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Ifs
  • Instinct