I Quotes
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“I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself.”
“I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.”
“I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.”
“I have never opened with the QP - on principle.”
“I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.”
“I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.”
“I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.”
“I have never painted a recent picture.”
“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night... Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures.”
“I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.”
“I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.”
“I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos - you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.”
“I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.”
“I have never played a game in my life.”
“I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.”
“I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You just come in and do a bunch of versions of it and then the animators and directors on that side of the movie put your performance together.”
“I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.”
“I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.”
“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.”
“I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.”
“I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.”
“I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.”
“I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.”
“I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.”
Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943
“I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.”
“I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.”
“I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.”
“I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.”
“I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.”
“I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.”
Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
“I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.”
“I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.”
“I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.”
“I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.”
“I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.”
“I have never read it. You should not waste your time.”
“I have never read The Joy of Crap. Sounds disgusting. I have, however, read The Joy of Sex. Not in a while, but I think it's one of those classics you can come back to again... and again.”
Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.”
“I have never really been an animal person. But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small tasks that you're obliged to perform for its welfare.”
Source: Still Me
“I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.”
“I have never really believed in a smiling face. They might just be hiding a pain. I mean look at me, I smile all the time.”
Source: Fib and the Axe of Fury
“I have never really believed in a smiling face. They might just be hiding their pain. I mean look at me, I smile all the time.”
Source: Fib and the Axe of Fury
“I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.”
“I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.”
“I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.”
“I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.”
“I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.”
Source: The Book of Evidence: Picador Classic
“I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."”