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• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Brain, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

  Ted Alexandro

  Thinking, Voice, Risk

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Support, Risk, Secret

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• As we turn to our Heavenly Father and seek His wisdom regarding the things that matter most, we learn over and over again the importance of four key relationships: with our God, with our families, with our fellowman, and with ourselves.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Keys, Four

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• It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.

  Shelly Crane

  Past, Done, Matter

  Shelly Crane “Wide Awake Boxset”, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

  Roberto Luongo

  Hockey, Matter, Get Up

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• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Writing, Talking, Laughing

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• There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

  Dean Kamen

  Real, Trying, Substance

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• It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have, what you don't have. The only thing that matters is that you set a goal and you just dream, live, and fly.

  Barrington Irving

  Dream, Goal, Where You Come

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• ...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

  Norton Juster

  Education, School, Important

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Goal, Political

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• Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Order, World

  "After Rana Plaza". www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

  Charlie Sheen

  Funny, Sleep, Sheep

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• We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Fun, Ideas

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

  Vikram Seth

  Thinking, Important, Ordinary

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• Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

  Donna Karan

  Design, Effort, Feel Good

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• I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

  John Lydon

  Song, Feelings, Matter

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

  Ted Alexandro

  Philosophy, Talking, Listening

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Noise, Matter

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• Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

  Vince Gill

  Song, Jobs, Play

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

  Arnold Newman

  Negative, Care, Matter

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• You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Beautiful, Responsibility, Epic

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  Matt Damon

  Next Day, Yesterday, One Day

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• God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?

  Heidi Montag

  Jesus, The End Of The Day, Matter

  "Heidi Montag Is Over 'The Hills' and the Drama" by William Keckusa, abcnews.go.com. June 30, 2008.

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