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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
- Economist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'
- Envisaged
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relativity can, for instance, explain that the universe had once been clumped into a dense fireball. But it can never explain how matter actually behaved.
- Nov 07, 2020
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020