Matthew McConaughey Quotes

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Matthew McConaughey

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• It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

  

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• When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.

  

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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

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• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

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• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

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• I fight because I like challenges.

  

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• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

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• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

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• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

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• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  

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• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

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• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

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• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

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• The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.

  

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• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

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• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  

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• Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

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• I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

  

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• When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

  

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• I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.

  

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• I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Thinking
  • Beginning
  • Discipline