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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won't ring true. No matter what the script says, there's no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There's no make-believe. It's for real.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'So Much More Than This' is about just getting tangled up in all of the drama and stuff that really does not matter and probably won't matter in, like, three months.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It's just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
- Mature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020