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Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.

Who cares how you get caught? If you're cheating, if you're doing wrong, it doesn't matter what you're doing -- it's wrong.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.

Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)?

Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death.

Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Without a plan, it doesn't matter which way you're going.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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

[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.

With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.

Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.

Women today are the biggest pigs today in history. They are just the dirtiest, nastiest slobs. I don't know how old your chick is, but the truth of the matter is they've become the aggressors. You know? They're upset if you're not balls deep in them by half way through the first date! They think you don't like them.

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.