Matt Lauer Quotes

I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

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• I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Decided
  • Then
  • Sue

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Painting

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Think
  • Boxes
  • Cultural

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Real
  • Parents

• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Voice

• I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Enjoy

• Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • World
  • Music
  • Start

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Why
  • Blessed

• When you’re a charmer people respond they can’t see the hidden agenda you got going on

  

  Aimee Mann
  • People

• I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Heart
  • Light

• I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.

  

  Lewis Black
  • House
  • Stupid
  • Fishing

• Rome is everybody's memory.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Memories

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Know
  • Focus
  • Fame

• I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

  

  Matt Lauer