Chris Matthews Quotes
Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I'm just like, 'This is it.' I've also learned how to be patient and not really try to overproduce anymore. I used to add instruments, keep adding instruments, but nowadays - I know better now. I know how to let the track breathe.
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on global warming There's a group of people who, a little while ago, were saying, 'It's not happening.' That same group of people are now saying, 'Alright, it is happening, but it's not our fault.' That's a very dodgy position to be in. That's like saying, 'I'm not having an affair, and, anyway, she seduced me'.
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I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.
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Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.
