- 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.
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on 'Open All Hours' had some unexpected perks, not least the attractions of the canteen at the BBC's rehearsal studios in West London.
- Retire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some actors retire, and some don't.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the vintage comedy on Radio 4 Extra wasn't very funny to begin with, whereas some things just get funnier regardless of the changes in public attitudes over the years.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020