Chris Matthews Quotes
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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I studied Morse code.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
