- Girl
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
- Ridiculous
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that everything is forgivable; some things are inexcusable but forgivable.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020