Matthew McConaughey Quotes
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
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Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
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Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.
