- Myself
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
- Photographer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
- Nov 07, 2020
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of DiMaggio as the exemplar of a 'golden age,' and in some ways, he was. But in the most fundamental ways, he was really the first modern athletic superstar because, number one, he ushered in the era of big money; and number two, he never did anything except that - he never really took another job in another industry.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020