Chris Matthews Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
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True love lasts forever.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.
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He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.
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The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.
