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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
It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.
- Art
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people build fences to keep people out; some people build fences to keep people in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.
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I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.
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Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
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- Nov 07, 2020