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Nothing Quotes
"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."
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"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
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"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."
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"It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go."
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"Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost."
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"Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing."
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"I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing."
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"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."
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"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
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"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
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"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."
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"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
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"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."
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"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
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"Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left."
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"I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose."
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"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."
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"I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing."
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"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal."
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"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."
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"I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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"We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about."
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
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"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
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"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
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"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
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