- Doing
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
- Nov 07, 2020
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
- Impressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Beckham has never impressed me.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people would probably get quite bored watching a series about a king who is powerful and never showed any vulnerability.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I was going to get involved in politics other than the DA's office.
- General Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020