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- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
- Bed
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- Nov 07, 2020
TaskRabbit is really my first baby. So balancing the second child is something I've tackled, but I'm really passionate about what I do, and then I'm passionate about coming home and putting my baby to bed.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they're also incredible generalists - something businesses that want to grow need.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my blog when I was a senior in college, and I knew that all the people in my program were probably going to be applying for very similar jobs, so I needed something to separate my resume.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arthur Laffer has taught us, 'If you tax something, you get less of it.' That's why firms are moving offshore in droves. It's not about being unpatriotic. It's that it doesn't pay, after-tax, to invest in the United States.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020