- Books
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to take a stand one way or the other on a political issue, to damage one particular party or help another.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in this business not to make myself part of the story. I have never wanted to be part of the story.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can truly say this: I don't care, and I've never really read what people thought.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
- Harmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never control a film. The film controls me.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020