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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved to sing my whole life, but it was never really - I don't even know how to say it. It was never presented to me as an actual career option.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget the day David Bowie passed away. I will actually never forget that day because I woke up in the middle of the night and it was the first thing on my phone. I had to lay there. It was almost like everything stopped.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never would have thought I would be able to learn as much as I did from Blake Shelton, so I want to open up the doors to working with people that might not make sense on paper, collaborating with different artists like that, because you can never stop learning. That's the most important thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As ubiquitous as the brands of the warehouse clubs are - Costco, BJ's and Sam's - they're not everywhere. If you have less than a million people in your town, or less than 500K, you might never get access to wholesale savings.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
- Gaddafi
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- Nov 07, 2020
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.
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- Nov 07, 2020