Chris Matthews Quotes
I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
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I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.
