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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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- Live
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.
- Mob
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the mob takes the Fifth.
- Goals
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I'm really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone's buzz or celebrity.
- Coordinating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
- Directing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
- Arresting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020