- Embody
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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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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
- First Amendment Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I have done in my career I have done from my values and doing things the way I like to do. So winning doesn't matter the world for me.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to play. It doesn't matter if it's just me up front on my own or alongside another striker. I always want to play in the first XI.
- Deem
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
- Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020