I Quotes
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“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.”
“It's not art, it's science.”
“It's not as "cheap" as it's put out to be. One predator drone in one day of activity supposedly needs 168 people... to carry out the day's operations... They crash a lot. So when you calculate their costs, consider that the Air Force has said about a third of their drones have crashed.”
“It's not as bad as it sounds.”
“It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.”
“It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.”
“It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.”
“It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.”
“It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.”
“It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.”
“It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.”
“It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.”
“It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'”
“It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books." In some ways they thought instead of the culmination of Old Testament books being Christ himself, the word incarnate as the opening verses of Hebrews 1 put it. In the past God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son and the son is revelation.”
“It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.”
Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
“It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.”
“It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.”
“It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.”
“It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.”
“It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.”
Source: Mortality
“It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.”
“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias”
Source: Killosophy
“It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.”
“It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.”
“It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.”
“It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.”
“It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!”
“It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked”
“It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.”
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“It's not because I like him. I'm just disappointed. Disappointed in love.”
“It's not because I love you, but because I only love you. If I don't have you, then I won't have any other choices.”
“It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.”
“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”
“It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.”
“It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.”
Source: The Shockwave Rider
“It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.”
“It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.”
“It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.”
“It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.”
“It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.”
“It's not Beirut or Bosnia.”
“It's not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, telling his supporters "punch that guy in the face." I think everyone candidate ought to aspire toward civility, towards decency, towards bringing us together. I don't think we should be using angry and hateful rhetoric.”
“It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.”
Source: The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
“It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.”
“It's not big," Veck said, "but it's flawless. That was important to me. I wanted to give you something...flawless”
Source: Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“It's not bragging if you can back it up.”
“It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.”
Source: And so it goes
“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's