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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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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Just why are we so poor? Why can I never sleep at night? Because bombs keep dropping! Why does my mother have to torture herself like that? Why didn't anyone give my dad a break? Why is there a war? Why? Why? Why?
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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.
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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.
