Matter Quotes
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That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
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To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
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Whoever innovates something in this matter of ours that is not part of it, will have it rejected.
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No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.
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I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
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I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.
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I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.
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Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.
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'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.
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A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.
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How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
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President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
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You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.
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What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
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You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.
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Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
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I know what it feels like to be bullied, and I will not tolerate the thought of anyone, for any reason, being bullied. It starts with young people and can end with young people. As we learn to embrace our diversity, we become stronger, more tolerant. The differences are beautiful. The differences matter. It's what makes life an adventure.
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As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
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Let [other people] know that they matter. They might benefit. And you certainly will.
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I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
