"Pick something you love and work your ass off, no matter what people say."
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"You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you."
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"No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy."
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"France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal."
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"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
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"It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood."
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"As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter."
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"'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems."
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"If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making."
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"The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters."
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"The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people."
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"If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter."
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"If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend."
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"I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end."
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"The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come."
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"Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond."
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"New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them"
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"If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot."
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"I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium."
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"I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well."
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