- 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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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, 'What's all the excitement about? He doesn't seem funny to me.'
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what I do, I can't help but feel that I'm under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020