Matt Damon Quotes
I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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We were more fortunate than most, because Bernard Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.
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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
