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• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Spring, Autumn

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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• Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

  A.S. King

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Perfect One, Entertainment, World

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• Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

  Tim Bevan

  Foundation, Scripts, Shots

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• Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

  Michael Sandel

  Perfect, People, Democracy

  "What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel - review" by John Lanchester, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Paris, Joy, Hell

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• It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

  Emma Thompson

  Weekend, Sometimes, Opening

  "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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• The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

  Hal Urban

  Honesty, Character, Keys

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  Stories, Spelling, Overrated

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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• Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

  Robin Morgan

  Taken, Inward, Spinning

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• It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

  Ashley Judd

  Past, Giving, Starting Over

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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• Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Order, Sometimes, Good Things

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• As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Records, Matter

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  Race, Sick, Damage

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• when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Art, Kind, Pleasure

  Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What matters to me is my own estimation, and Im very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what Ive done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

  Jean Dujardin

  Christian, Hard Work, Guilt

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• I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

  David Eagleman

  Afterlife, Joy, Lenses

  "David Eagleman: 'We won't die - our consciousness will live forever on the internet'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

  Theresa May

  Government, Voters, Matter

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

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• Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

  Alan Rosenberg

  Play, Bargaining, Fairs

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

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• What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Respect, Eye, Men

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, Trying, May

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Family, Long Distance Relationship, Witty

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.

  Charles Stanley

  Teaching, Blessing, Heaven

  "Total Surrender". Book by Matthew Terrill, 2014.

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