Matthew Fox Quotes
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I love all things Christmas.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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In French there is an old expression, 'la patte', meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and all that retinal painting.
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We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
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I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.
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After 'Lost', I never need to take a job for the money again.
