Matthew Stewart Quotes
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.
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When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
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Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.
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Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.
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The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.
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Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
