Matthew McConaughey Quotes

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

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• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Hell

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Ridiculous

• I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Want

• My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • War
  • Just
  • Cynicism

• I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guy
  • Fight
  • Street

• We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Game
  • Change

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Mother

• Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People
  • Music
  • Forever

• Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.

  

  Bevy Smith
  • Home
  • Book
  • Kids

• You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

  

  Etta James
  • Business
  • Woman
  • Singing

• Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Forever