Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world with a large enough lever and his own belief in himself. "I set a goal and I go after it...I'm not at all tense about it. I visualize it, I see it in front of me that it will happen, and then it's just a matter of motions, going through motions and working up to that level...
...point, to Hercules at least, was that Arnold had these goals, that he had dedicated himself, made something out of nothing. People cavilled about bodybuilding, what a thing to dedicate your life to! Hercules didn't see that but he believed it didn't matter what you dedicated yourself to, it was even better if it was absurd. Hercules saw gleamings of Arnold the Existentialist...
THAT LITTLE TRYST on the turf is as far as Norman gets with Annie, or any of the women for that matter; and at the end of the play, as all three turn their backs on him, all he can do is scream in frustration, "I only wanted to make you happy...
...have the endowment, Harvard has, we don't have the resources," James Blake, public relations director for the college, said yesterday. "Everything we have is mortgaged, and no matter what we would like to do we have to temper it with our pocketbook," he added...
...think that we should either seize their oilfields or destroy them if we can." Frank McVey, a New York truck driver, would not even wait to see what happens to the hostages. Says he: "We might as well write off the hostages; they're going to be killed no matter what we do. We should bomb the hell out of that country so it will be a long time before anyone else tries the same thing...