Walter Matthau Quotes
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Women just love to shop.
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things.
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
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As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
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I think it was a wake up call for everybody. Yeah, they could see that I had a weakness and a tendency to overindulge.
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They make a desolation and call it peace.
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I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
