- Humble
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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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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
- Dwight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a launch you are getting - everyone has to begin somewhere.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to a point in my career where it doesn't matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
- Tragedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach a such a big team. But I would never take that job, in respect for my former team at Liverpool, no matter what.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020