#matt

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#could #course #events #generation #great

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#giving up #going #i #i can #keep

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#expressed #favorite #i #mattered #old

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#entire #environment #faulkner #held #i

I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore. ↗

— Tiffani Amber Thiessen

#go #i #kid #lot #matter

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#beautiful #beautiful person #give #going #i

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#basement #basic #closet #dark #down

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?' ↗

— Matt Stone

#does #happy #i #like #makes

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#carefully #dreams #goals #gusto #how