- 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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- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how late I come home - it could be two o'clock, three o'clock in the morning - I have to take off my makeup.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people overwhelmingly supported Bernie because he wasn't the standard politician. He let his hands flail around as he passionately spoke about the issues that sincerely matter to him. He was real.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020