Matthew McConaughey Quotes
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
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So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
