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"Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter."
"So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good."
"To be happy - that's all that matters."
"No Matter what you do there will be critics."
"No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it."
"The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more."
"Time will perfect matter."
"I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly."
"There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'"
"Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death."
"In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives."
"The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below."
"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
"Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses."
"I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep regurgitating the same sh*t. And it ain't exciting. I seen it from when I was a kid watching the whole sh*t. The sh*t was exciting to me."
"No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative."
"If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else."
"You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it."
"No matter what the past has dealt you, don't let it destroy your future."
"No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all."
