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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, Ninety Nine, World

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Moving, Apology

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• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Positive, Long

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• The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

  Raoul Dufy

  Way, Accounts, Subjects

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• The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

  Frances Perkins

  Government, People, Giving

  Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”

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• I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

  Ray Lewis

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Men

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• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  Arthur Koestler

  Data, Facts, Mosaics

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.

  Theresa May

  Numbers, People, Holy Grail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

  Terry Riley

  Matter, Deals, Happens

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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, People

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged in the thinking. But that’s the great thing about performing, and why it is also sexual, because in that moment – or in that evening – I’m completely in the present for once in my life. Nothing that came before or anything that may come after: only what matters is now. And that’s what human beings crave.

  Jeff Buckley

  Thinking, Missing, May

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• It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

  Caroline Myss

  Energy, Matter, You Choose

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, Hair

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• I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

  Gordon Brown

  Father, Nothing Matters, Father Son

  2003 Following the birth of his son. Quoted in the Observer, 19 Oct.

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• When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.

  Albert Houtum-Schindler

  Loyalty, Educational, Concern

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• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  Oksana Chusovitina

  Gymnastics, Years, Asking

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• Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.

  Herman Wouk

  Strong, Moving, Men

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• Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Heart, Conquer The World, Goal

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• The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

  Kim Stanley

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

  Steve McCurry

  Feelings, Important, Together

  "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

  Jim Butcher

  Anger, Choices, Use

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

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• Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Adversity, Adversity In Life, Matter

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• We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

  Judy Blume

  Fall, Years, Together

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• What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

  Paul Auster

  Matter, Trouble, Wells

  Paul Auster (2009). “The Book of Illusions: A Novel”, p.32, Macmillan

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