- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
- Nov 07, 2020
It really doesn't matter what you've done in the past. We just don't rest on our laurels.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020