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• Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

  Steve Martin

  Mean, Awards, Comedian

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Joy, Doe

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• Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Fighting, Artist, Issues

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• What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

  Rachel Vincent

  World, Faces, Shows

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Shadow Bound”, p.74, MIRA

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• What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

  Rumi

  Soul, Matter, Your Soul

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• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

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• Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

  Tim Bevan

  Foundation, Directors, Scripts

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• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  Walter Annenberg

  Thinking, Matter, Standards

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Serendipity, Television

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• What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Honesty, Understanding

  Andreas Feininger (1982). “Total photography”, Not Avail

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Goyim, Matter, Jew

  An "oft-repeated credo" according to the "Windsor Star", December 3, 1973.

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• We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Beautiful, Mind, Care

  "The habits of happiness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2004.

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, Missing, Connections

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• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Temptation, Healthy, Soul

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Long, Safety, Safe

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• You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word marriage to the word soul mates, but you are the same. You will make the same hell out of soul mates as you have been making out of marriage - nothing has changed, only the word, the label. Don't believe in labels too much.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Believe, Understanding

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• The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!

  T. Harv Eker

  Issues, Size, Problem

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 03, 2013

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• Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

  John Wooden

  Character, May, Reputation

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.13, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Passion, Heart, Names

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• We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Destiny, Moments

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• For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Jobs, Technology, Complexity

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• There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Prayer, Nice

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Missing, Important

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2014.

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