“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)
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“I'm ready. They hit me hard. I hit them hard. Doesn't matter who hits. What matters is results.”
Steve Schrader (April 13, 2008) "What the NBC microphones picked up: Predator taunting", Detroit Free Press.

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (27th June 1980)
“Doesn't matter who it is
I'll friggin break 'em
-Grimmjow jaggerjaques”
Source: Bleach, Volume 24

“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.”
There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
A Grief Observed (1961)

“It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.”
Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/buffy/interviews/benson2003/printpage.html

“It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness

A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.