Matter Quotes

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.