Matthew Heineman Quotes
When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
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We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
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Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
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When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'
