- People
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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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- Clean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
- Calendar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
- Harassment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason skaters hang around this guy is because he's Lil Wayne, but they don't like him. I've talked to skaters; nobody likes Wayne as a skateboarder.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life as an only child can be a bit lonely, and when I had Finley, I decided that if I could give him a big family, I wanted to as much as possible.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020