- Own
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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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- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
- Cleverest
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- Nov 07, 2020
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020