Matthew McConaughey Quotes

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

Matthew McConaughey

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Sing
  • Shower

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Nice

• Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

  

  Najib Razak
  • New
  • Tax
  • Australia

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Language

• Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Training
  • Beauty
  • Regime

• For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.

  

  Becky G
  • Eye
  • Everyday
  • Makeup

• You don't talk to terror organizations!

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Talk
  • Terror

• As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Find

• I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Universe
  • Famous
  • Driving

• The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World
  • Science
  • Logic

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Kind
  • Problem
  • Literature

• The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Lord

• Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.

  

  Matthew McConaughey