- Important
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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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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020