- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Quotes
Small word, wide range of thought.
This page gathers quotes that turn on the word "some" — a small qualifier that shows up everywhere from filmmakers talking about creative limits to reflections on real historical friction, including the 1962 border war fought over disputed Himalayan terrain. If you're also drawn to broader affirmations, the Good quotes collection covers similar ground from another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerable mountain streams into flumes, the owners can bring a great part of their cane and all their wood for fuel down to the mills without other expense than the original cost of the woodwork.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is always at some turning point.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been a pleasure to play alongside some truly special cricketers and to see them grow as players.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020