"My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else."
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"Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations."
"It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend."
"And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done."
"It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car."
"You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them."
"The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small."
"I know for sure that nothing matters."
"No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it."
"No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves."
"What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what."
"You were seen, you were heard and you matter."
"Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard."
"Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be."
"Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic."
"When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters."
"The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you."
"The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times."
"Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments."
"The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault."