- 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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don't matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am 100 percent a Trump supporter. I believe in his message. I believe he will run this country like he runs his life: successfully. I stand as a proud American, and I stand for a unified America that is tolerant of each other no matter who we voted for. I stand behind our President because that's the American thing to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020