- Me
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.
- Judgment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
- Favourable
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studios are nervous on every movie. It never ends, because Marty's movies are so unusual. He doesn't repeat himself, so they don't know what to expect. We have to fight hard to keep them from being ruined. Film students can't believe that when I tell them, because they think, 'Well, it's Martin Scorsese.'
- Nov 07, 2020