Quotes with matter

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  • Arthur Scargill If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benedict Wong In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Ovid In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Italo Calvino In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Andrew Cohen In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sagan In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • C. J. Cherryh Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
    Invader (1995)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Cate Campbell Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Georges Bataille Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Cameron Sinclair It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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