Matt Damon Quotes
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
