Matt Besser Quotes
Don't invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don't have room for that secret. I've got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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We're not looking for some sort of group hug from the party.
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New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
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If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.
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Don't invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don't have room for that secret. I've got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets.
