- Braves
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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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- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
- Nov 07, 2020
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that no matter what I do, people are going to have their opinions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find that the story tells me which voice it prefers, and that often changes as I go along. And in the end it really doesn't matter as long as the author can rig those voices all in harness to pull the same load.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020