Matthew Stewart Quotes
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.
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People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
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I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.
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I encourage people and their different points of view.
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
