- Public Service
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
- Missed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never missed a rally for my dad.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020