Matt Damon Quotes
I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.
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Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
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Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.
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When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.
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I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.
