- Education
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thrilled that Sadiq Khan was so in support of the idea of culture being at the centre of a city and the idea that it is everyone's right. It can't be a matter of privilege or chance. It should be something everyone can have in their life, and that means knowing what it is.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?
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- Nov 07, 2020