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I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
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With new relationships, we get scared of being loved because we scared of rejection. Don’t let your fears ruin a perfectly good relationship.
Emily BockEmily Bock I love having someone to talk to all night.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith It is a loud war to love you in silence.
Noor BazziNoor Bazzi Don’t let unimportant people have too much power over you.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park Remember that your purpose is indeed to be nothing else but YOU, all that you are and all that you want to be.
ShamaShama I like the crazy ones- the ones made of a little bit of human and a lot of star.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Let go and trust in the higher power to guide you.
Lisa RoseLisa Rose Let the music fill the empty patches of your soul. And heal you.
Makenzie CampbellMakenzie Campbell
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.
Tony FinauTony Finau The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
Eartha KittEartha Kitt I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin
