- 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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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
- Momentum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there's a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
- Bat
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020