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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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- Common
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the educated are free.
- Hope
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020