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.
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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 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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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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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.
