- 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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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did people’s attitudes towards me change after I appeared on TV? Yeah, definitely. During my career I’ve had some flak - particularly doing television.
- Eminent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly hoodwinked by some fairly shoddy fabrications.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to dress like Beyonce: some custom-print, neoprene onesie with no pants.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
- Nov 07, 2020
Talking about peace might not be exciting... some say you don't eat peace, but without peace, you don't eat at all.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.
- Financed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
- Labour
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- Nov 07, 2020
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
- Emerges
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- Nov 07, 2020