- Food
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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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- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?
- Addiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversity is not only color, but it also includes individuals with disabilities.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020