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“You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.”

Ideas Matter Answers Records Golf Good Ideas

Author:Nick Faldo

“Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.”

Way Mind Wells Children Matter Character Weakness Golf Uncanny Endearing

Book:The Inner Game of Golf

Source: The Inner Game of Golf

“No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.”

May Matter Use Winning Advice Faults Golf Remedy Consistently Constructive Golfers Trophies

Author:Byron Nelson

“It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.”

Important Matter Games Mystery Reflection Golf Life And Death Enigma Conundrums Reflections Of Life

Author:Peter Alliss

“Once you can't hear, it really doesn't matter how much louder one place is than the other Death Valley, when it gets rocking at night, it's a different animal. I've played there in the daytime as well and it's just a different animal at nighttime.”

Wells Different Matter Night Animal Valleys Tigers Daytime Nighttime Lsu Different Animals

Author:Doug Johnson

“No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.”

People Trying Matter Today Games Levels Basketball Court And Off

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a matter of fact, Derek Fisher called me yesterday to thank me. If you double me, I'm kicking out to Eddie, who's the best shooter in the East. Or I'm going to give it to Dwyane, or put it on the ground and come bang on you.”

Ifs Giving Made Matter Facts Guy Basketball East Yesterday Contracts Bangs Knights Matter Of Fact Kicking Shooter Double Me

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.”

Ifs Littles Matter Guy Bigger Stronger Faults Nba Foul Referee Flakes

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.”

Said Matter Failing Conversation Affair Instance Dirty Nasty Filthy Polygamy Joseph Smith

Author:Oliver Cowdery

“Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters... we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.”

Knows Men Years Matter Feelings Lying Wife Crazy Consequence Going Away Testimony Deceived Polygamy

Author:Jedediah M. Grant

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

Said Matter Would Be Young Church Views Alive Brother Healthy Horror Pure Decided Prejudice Unions Dues Snow Brothers And Sisters Offspring Polygamy Bros

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].”

People Matter Feelings Emotion

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“No matter what you do, you first have to have a vision... to see your goal, to believe in it, have faith in it and chase it. And then it's fun to chase it. If you don't have a goal or a vision, then you have nothing.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Matter Fun Goal Vision No Matter What Have Faith

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.”

Different Matter Play Used Opportunity Subjects Different Things Mature Subject Matter Different Subjects

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.”

People Want Writing Trying Book Matter Film Reading Subjects Constant Always Trying Subject Matter Accessibility Immediacy Complete Freedom

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.”

Ifs Writing Matter Would Be Able Song Careers One Thing Drug Tools Addiction Alcohol If I Could Sober Drugs And Alcohol Alcohol Addiction

Author:Macklemore

“If you have to become a filmmaker, find a story that takes you away, and tell that story. Don't think about whether it's going to sell, or whether it's going to make money, or whether it's going to appeal to distributors. Do something from the heart that really matters, and then you'll do something good.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Matter Stories Sells Making Money Appeals Filmmaker Distributors

Author:Anne Makepeace

“To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.”

People Mind Matter Character Action Forget Acting Laughing Minutes Shapes Directors Absolutes Relate Concentration Snaps Giggle

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.”

Thinking Should Book Matter Stories School Political Language Common Study Students Source Pure Conflict Structure Shocking Compelled Public School

Author:David Plotz

“I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Matter Guy Certain Fun Natural Issues Backgrounds Tendencies Filmmaker Provoking Documentaries Just For Fun

Author:Jose Padilha

“I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.”

Matter Moments Seems Accepting Judgment Prepared Conception Inappropriate

Author:Joe Biden

“No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.”

Ifs World Matter No Matter What Tongue Native Accents

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is.”

People Ifs Needs Persons Matter Life Is Talking Husband Perceive Interaction Loving Husband

Author:Will Smith

“There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.”

Men Matter Bigs Sports Late Size

Author:Michael Wilbon

“There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.”

Said Different Matter Film Process Space Subjects Fronts Cameras More Time Subject Matter

Author:Dave Franco

“The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has all eyes on the captain. If they come in going, "I don't know. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe we'll do that," you've got 10 days to shoot and they don't care what you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Matter Eye Care Energy Levels Talent Directors No Matter What Don't Care Ships Captains Crew Energy Levels

Author:Melissa Leo

“Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.”

Thinking Knows Matter Realizing Forever Students Ego You Think You Know Matter Of Time

Author:Pharrell Williams

“You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.”

Ifs Want Matter Beats Working It

Author:Jeff Goldblum

“Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.”

People Matter Play Character Faces Pretending

Author:Stanley Tucci

“It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.”

Sometimes Matter Opening Weekend What Matters Distressing

Author:Emma Thompson

“I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.”

Thinking Stills Matter Stories Accurate True Story

Author:John Lee Hancock

“I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.”

People Long Ends Matter Stories Stuff Television Huge Divides Filmmaking Iphone Laptops

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.”

Looks Littles Matter Done Black White Roles Color Majority Excluded Radar

Author:Michael Jai White

“It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.”

Ifs Matter Faces Law Fall Balance Worship Down And Court Supreme Bows Supreme Court Ruling Balance Of Power

Author:Mike Huckabee

“No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.”

Way Matter Decision Teach Dog Late Tricks Right Thing Too Late Screws Screw Ups Never Too Late Old Dog Wrong Decision

Author:Will Ferrell

“It doesn't matter what kind of music you like or what kind of person you are or what you're used to listening to, or whether you know me or not. It doesn't matter, either way you can be inspired by it [my songs]. Each way I want to make it relatable to that group, but most of all keep the inspirational part of it, for sure."”

Knows Way Want Kind Persons Matter Used Song Groups Listening Inspired Know Me Relatable Be Inspired

Author:Miley Cyrus

“If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.”

Ifs World Giving Two Ideas Matter Purpose Universe Sides Natural Design Features Prize Meaningless Selection Particles Newton Natural Selection

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.”

People Should Kind Matter Government Would Be Together Jobs Stuff Position Ideals Plant Boring Pleasant Wire Utility Power Plants

Author:Grace Slick

“Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.”

Ifs World Needs Should Doe Matter Might Earth Attention Planets Development Evolution Succeed Species Evolution Of Life

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers.”

Men Want Needs I Can Matter Reason Winning Numbers Streets Tvs Majors Hot Labels Barriers Awards Linked Business Man

Author:Yo Gotti

“The kitchen is where you put all the ingredients together. The kitchen is where you prepare the plan and put your recipe together. No matter what you do in life, you have to have a plan and put it together.”

Matter Together Plans No Matter What Kitchen Ingredients Recipes

Author:Yo Gotti

“There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.”

Thinking Way Writing Kind Art Matter Would Be Together Support Standards Pressure No Matter What Statements Unfair Arbitrary Blanket Sexist High Standards Disingenuous

Author:Mindy Kaling

“There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."”

Men Giving Matter Next Games Winning Loss Effort Doubt Fields Football He Man Commitment No Doubt Football Field Wins And Losses

Author:Ray Lewis

“The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.”

Children Matter Kings Capitalism Hip Hop Hips Hops Posters

Author:Immortal Technique

“Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Matter Perfect Comfortable No Matter What Shy Be Confident

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.”

People Trying Matter Christian Faces Values Black White Atheist Categories Asian Latino Face Value

Author:Immortal Technique

“Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.”

Way May Matter Play Hands Seems Speak Easy Tough Embrace Up To You Happily Ever After Ever After Yang Nothing Is Easy

Author:Alex Gaskarth

“It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.”

People Ifs Want Needs Heart Matter Race Hip Hop Hips Telling The Truth Hops

Author:Immortal Technique

“Surfing is so unique and it's something that no matter what level you are, you can go and have fun. You can pick and choose the waves that you want to surf, so if it is too big and scary, you can wait until it changes and gets more to your level. Every time you go out it's always different and unique. It's almost like a place you can just de-stress.”

Ifs Want Different Matter Bigs Fun Waiting Levels Unique Picks Stress No Matter What Wave Scary Having Fun Surfing Surf De Stress

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.”

People Ifs Knows Matter Reason Earth Regard Ethnicity Cheekbones

Author:Mat Johnson

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