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.

Clay Matthews III

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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.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Up
  • Success
  • Fall

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• 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.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Friends
  • Kid
  • Questions

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• Independence is a very subjective assessment.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Very
  • Independence

• Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Kind
  • Drama
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Today
  • Very

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Look
  • Flowers

• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Week
  • Two

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Look

• What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Know
  • Personality

• I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Honor
  • Role
  • Step

• 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?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Wish
  • Lie

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Black
  • Blue

• When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up
  • School
  • Drama

• I'm not overweight. I have and will always eat to nourish my body, and I work out.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Work

• In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Believe
  • American
  • Together

• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Poor
  • Loss
  • Benefits

• I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

  

  Clay Matthews III