Matt Besser Quotes
People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
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I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.
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I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times.
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I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
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I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
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People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.
