Just One Quotes - Page 36

• When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.

  Robert Reich

  Kids, Boys, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Cutting, Together

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Ends, Chains

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.25, Penguin

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• If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Sea, Miracle

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• Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

  William Styron

  Writing, Problem, One Word

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

  Emile Zola

  Feelings, Firsts, May

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• One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Effort, Unions

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• I think I have made just one picture that I really like.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Made, Dissatisfaction

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.

  Daniel Dennett

  Eye, Intelligent, Historical

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• I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Artist, Squares, Trying

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• Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.

  Bill Smith

  Country, Adventure, Unique

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• The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

  John Scott

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Ethics

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• Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Careers, Apples

  "Apple unveils cell phone, Apple TV". www.nbcnews.com. January 1, 2007.

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

  Jewel

  Would Be, World, One Thing

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

  Will Rogers

  Oasis, Arizona, Grows

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

  Sam Rayburn

  Running, Intelligent, Political

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• The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Way, Use

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• The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Firsts, Causes

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

  Lauren Mackler

  Power, Giving, Feelings

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• Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Tattoo, Cereal, People

  Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Tattoo”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do just one thing every day in the direction of your dreams.

  J. P. Blake

  Dream, Your Dreams, One Thing

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• Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Brain, Foundation, Doe

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

  Danielle Trussoni

  Night, Escaping, Years

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• Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dream, Inspiration, Special

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

  Sarah Silverman

  Moving, Mixing, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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