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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Nov 07, 2020
I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
- Voice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When I'm working with singer-songwriters, and I hear melodies, I can guide them. I will be like, 'Oh no, do this this this.' But you will never hear my voice on a Martin Garrix track.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
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- Nov 07, 2020