- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
- Death
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
- Humanity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Journalism
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020