Matt Lauer Quotes

I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

Matt Lauer

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Learn

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Country
  • Powerful
  • Same

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Like
  • Pretentious

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Different
  • Seen
  • Many

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • World
  • Way
  • Like

• Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Know
  • Alone

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • History
  • Study

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Storm

• Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Interesting
  • Trust

• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Different
  • Happy

• The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sea

• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Cute

• I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith

• I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Fishing