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- Nov 07, 2020
Discarded Quotes
What gets left behind, and what gets found again.
This set of discarded quotes moves from old models giving way to new realities to an apology for past policies. For more on new thinking, see our Ideas quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.
- Bucks
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for 'Elle' spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
- Cover
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020