Matt Lauer Quotes
If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
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I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
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Q: Do you feel a need to be distinctive and mass-produced? Q: Are you in the groove? That is, are you moving in ever-diminishing circles? Q: How often do you change your mind, your politics, your clothes? (p. 121-125)
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When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
