- 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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- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the right to - given the opportunity to vote, I voted for Brexit because I've never approved really of the European Union, I never approved of it because of its attempts to confiscate national sovereignty in all the issues that matter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020