- Chronic
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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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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
- Big Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only when my 'Punktown'-based stories began seeing print did I demonstrate my proclivity for blurring the borders between horror, science fiction, and other genres.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020