- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.
- Nov 07, 2020
You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I wanted out of Indiana was a chance to win my whole career there.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
- Los Angeles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020