- Political
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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.
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- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our military's presence in Hawaii not only plays a critical role in our national security but also in driving our state's economy and supporting thousands of jobs in the public and private sectors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- Count
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
- Economic Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main reasons America revolted was to get away from the Bank of England, the mother of all central banks - the most pernicious and insidious of all.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020