#matter

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#just #just one #matter #needed #one thing

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#crucial #matter #only #subject #subject matter

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question. ↗

— Vera Rubin

#different #does #enough #matter #question

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#been #both #centre #contribute #conviction

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

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

— Barbet Schroeder

#kill #literature #matters #movies #somebody

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

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters. ↗

— David Simon

#albert #also #cause #choice #commit