Matt Damon Quotes

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

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• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

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• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

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• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

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• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

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• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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• The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

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• Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

  

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• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

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• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

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• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

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• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

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• I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

  

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• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

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• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  

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• Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

  

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• I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.

  

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• We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.

  

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• I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

  

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• I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

  

  Matt Damon
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