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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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It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.
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The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
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Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.
- Great
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No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
- Own
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Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that on 'Fading of the Cries.'
- People
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But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that's based on the subject matter. 'Mainstream' is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was involved with the Nation of Islam. I wasn't doing no marching. I've been involved with the Nation for 50 years. Back in those days, they tried to label us as black Muslims. There are Muslims all over the world. It doesn't have to be black; it doesn't matter what color he is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020