Matt Damon Quotes
I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
 
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	I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.   
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	Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.   
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	Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.   
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	I am not honest.   
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	In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.   
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	When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.   
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	After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.   
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	I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.   
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	The devil made me do it.   
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	Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.   
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	College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.   
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	I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.   
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	At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.   
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	I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.   
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	I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.   
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	My profession has helped me to grow up.   
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	George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.   
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	Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.   
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	The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.   
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	A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.   
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	I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.   
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	But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.   
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	Emotions are captive to reality.   
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	I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					