- 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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness is more a matter of acoustics than of mouth feel.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
- Guarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where it is or who it's against, I will always be available for Scotland as long as I am fit.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020