“It doesn't matter what you do… so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
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"My Feelings" (p. 179)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”
"The Heart of a Mouse"
Source: The Witches (1983)
Context: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
Source: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter One
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Teen People Video Short, 20 Teens Who Will Change the World, 2003
“If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”