- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just Quotes
On simplicity and things that just come together.
The word 'just' does a lot of work in these quotes, minimizing effort, describing creativity in unexpected places, or downplaying how a career path came about at all. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?
- Enjoying Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm usually just enjoying life.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020