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Nothing Quotes
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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"Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing."
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"Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system."
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"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."
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"I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad."
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"I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing."
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"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."
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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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"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."
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"We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday."
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."
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"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
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"I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it."
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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 was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now."
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"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."
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"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."
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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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"When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else."
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"I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him."
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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
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"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."
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"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
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"I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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"There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us."
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"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside."
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"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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"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
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"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."
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"The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all."
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"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
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"Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it."
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"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."
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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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