I Quotes
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“I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.”
“I never drink water... fish f**k in it.”
“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”
“I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.”
“I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel
“I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.”
Source: The works of Laurence Sterne
“I never drink... wine.”
“I never drop a player I only make changes.”
“I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.”
“I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.”
“I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.”
“I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.”
“I never eat before breakfast.”
“I never eat breakfast, but that doesn't mean I don't sell it at my Duck Farm Cafe. Children over the age of 65 dine FREE!”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”
Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater
“I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.”
“I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!”
“I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.”
“I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.”
“I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.”
“I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.”
“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“I never endorsed Donald Trump or any of the candidates who are running for the nomination that would make them the leader of their party. I said of Mr. Trump that I give him credit as the only one who stood in front of "some" members of the Jewish community and told them he did not need or want their money. This was very big because any man who is able to stand on his own is free enough to do what is in the best interest of the country. That is what I said and that is what I meant.”
“I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I never enjoyed being famous.”
“I never enjoyed birthdays. I don’t even get them. What is so special about a date. We are born in a day and a year later, the day is completely different. The new day has no intrinsic connection to the old one, yet we prescribe value to it in a similar manner. Congratulation! You managed to stay the fuck alive for another year.”
Source: Masquerade
“I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.”
“I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.”
“I never enjoyed working in a film.”
“I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.”
“I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.”
“I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.”
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.”
“I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.”
“I never envisioned that sitting and talking to my marigolds would be more therapeutic than talking to people.”
“I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.”
“I never envy what I don’t know how it was obtained.”
“I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.”
Source: Practical magic
“I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.”
“I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.”
“I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.”
“I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better.”
“I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.”
“I never even had the time to read novels.”
“I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.”
“I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.”
Source: Good as Gold
“I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?”
“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.”
“I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'”