- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing Quotes
Sometimes nothing says the most.
"Nothing" carries surprisingly different tones across this set — frustration with limited consumer protections sits next to warm nostalgia for a cheap, music-filled stretch of life in Paris. For quotes on affection and belonging, see Love quotes.
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- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- Sit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know the wonders of Skype, but there's nothing like getting a hug from your daughters or taking them to school.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020