- Field
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drogba has been our great motivator. He never stops reminding us that we are here to win the tournament, no matter the hurdles, no matter the game form and no matter the score margin.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A childhood favourite that has stayed with me over the years is Kate Winslet. She's an amazing British actress who always delivers no matter what role she's in. Another actress I've found incredibly inspiring is Olivia Colman.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Cameron's government criminalised squatting in empty homes. This too was previously a civil matter. Thousands of homeless people found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Some have been imprisoned for using property abandoned by its owners.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.
- Nov 07, 2020