- 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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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
- Family
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The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.
- Forties
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The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include lies and smears and the exploitation of what Lenin called 'useful idiots.'
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is a modern phenomenon caused by the explosion of media, where there's a zillion digital channels and snappers everywhere. It's so attainable, so people can have their Warhol 15 minutes of fame, and some are so aggressive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
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- Nov 07, 2020