Walter Matthau Quotes
You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.

Quotes to Explore
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.