Ask him whether he expects his own Nobel, and he responds matter of factly: "Oh, never.
"That she would keep going after what she believed in, and help her father live his life," she responds matter-of-factly.
"No," she responds matter-of-factly.
(I mean, really, why are we watching men's figure skating?) Michael responds matter-of-factly, with the enthusiasm of a 76-year-old Irish bartender who has just been asked to defend a televised ice-dancing ritual.
Case in point: two business school economists are walking down the street and one says to the other as they keep walking, "wasn't that a twenty dollar bill we just passed on the sidewalk?" and the other responds matter-of-factly, "No, if that was a twenty dollar bill, someone would have picked it up already".
I don't believe in war," she responded, matter-of-factly.
I asked the taxi driver why life looked so normal, and he responded matter-of-factly, "We got too used to living this life.
These realizations have given us little choice but to acknowledge that who we are, how we are seen, with whom we interact and how we respond matter and, ultimately, play a considerable role in the creation of our own ideas.
"UFO," someone responded matter-of-factly.
"No," they both responded matter-of-factly.
