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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I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
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Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.
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I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
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Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
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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.
