I Quotes
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“I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].”
“I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.”
“I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did--
guys who were killed.”
“I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.”
“I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.”
“I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.”
“I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.”
“I never liked group work in school.”
“I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.”
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.”
Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
“I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.”
“I never liked luxury, but I grew up in an environment of businessmen, in an environment where I had to sell goods, so I had to emit the quality of those goods.”
“I never liked making albums.”
“I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”
“I never liked my own species.”
“I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.”
“I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.”
“I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.”
“I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.”
“I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.”
“I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.”
“I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.”
Source: Tet
“I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story.”
“I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.”
“I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.”
“I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.”
“I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government”
Source: The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: 1755-1794
“I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, "Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?" But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.”
“I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report
“I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.”
“I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.”
“I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.”
“I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.”
“I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.”
“I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.”
“I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.”
“I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.”
“I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.”
“I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.”
“I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.”
“I never liked to work, I mean manual work.”
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.”
“I never liked you, and I always will.”
“I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.”
“I never listen that you can't.”