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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
- Nov 07, 2020
But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
- Field
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.
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