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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of the National Governors Association - just to name a few. But my most cherished job - and frankly my most important job for that matter - is being a father.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Promoting and protecting human rights internationally is not just a matter of principle or morality - doing so also serves our national security interests.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
- Well
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have some talent. So, I'm going to show it off. No matter what, I'm gonna keep going.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.
- Nov 07, 2020
And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.
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- Nov 07, 2020