#matt

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#beyond #case #confines #constructed #content

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. ↗

— Gale Sayers

#enough #how #i #learned #make

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in. ↗

— Roy Scheider

#good work #important #important thing #matter #medium

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

#kill #literature #matters #movies #somebody

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#another #appreciate #artistic #book #cash

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#death #football #i #life #life and death

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#matter #serious #soldiers #too #war

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#conservative #contribution #culture #democrat #down

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#culture #decade #existential #how #idea

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black. ↗

— Carly Simon

#actress #because #black #came #face