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On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
I'm here for the long-term, that's for sure. I think this championship is growing massively. It's only going to get more and more interesting.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.
I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
