- Heart
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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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- Regret
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching profession was full of talented women like her, confined there in part because they had few career options.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
- Sitting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
- Checked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
- Nov 07, 2020
The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020