Matthew Perry Quotes
When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I don't have many friends.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
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...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Most people don't remember the guy from 'The Real World.' They know the guy who is a professional, a father, and a friend that gives great advice.
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Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
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When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
