Matthew Stewart Quotes
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.
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Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
