Clay Matthews III Quotes
I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
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What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?
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When people say 'Black Lives Matter,' that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter; it just means all lives matter, but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.
