- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earning high returns isn't just a matter of bragging rights - endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the next thing; it doesn't matter who posts it. In that environment, the Critics' Choice is still very important.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first got into cricket by watching Test matches on TV and listening to overseas tours on the radio. The sport really grabbed me - and it didn't matter that England weren't hugely successful back then.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.
- Twilight
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020