- Pain
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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
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No matter what we do and what we accomplish or how we perform, we're always looking at areas we can improve upon.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
For athletes, it is unhealthy to be one-sport focused, especially at a young age. I believe in exposing kids to lots of activities - there are great advantages to being a well-rounded athlete and human, no matter the field of play.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020