Matt Lauer Quotes
I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.
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A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
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As far as the Palace is concerned, we will follow the rule of law. We will just see what develops.
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I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
