- Live
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a long time to figure out that I didn't have to do everything, that it was actually a lot more helpful if I did a couple things really, really well than a whole bunch of things really badly, or nothing at all, because the whole thing was overwhelming.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
- Lipstick
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- Nov 07, 2020
For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is hanging on my walls.
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020