- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Peril
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast!
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
- Dumb People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only dumb people are happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, good-paying construction jobs, but manufacturing and service opportunities in Colorado along with the Keystone Pipeline.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.
- Seeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020