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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody Quotes
Sometimes nobody notices until it matters.
A couple of these question what freedom really means when so much confinement happens outside of bars. For more on personal identity, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though you're the best, it doesn't mean you're not going to lose. And it doesn't mean nobody's going to beat you.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.
- Goodbye
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows me.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020