#necessarily

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. ↗

— George McGovern

#discredit #easier #feeling #get #i

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#bull #gate #go #like #necessarily

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#everyone #i #me #mean #necessarily

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#fully #grasp #imagery #necessarily #resonant

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ↗

— George Orwell

#destruction #essential #human #human lives #labor

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cheek #company #david #doing #done

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#children #contentment #control #importantly #joy

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#both #distinctions #either #false #hard

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#her #led #necessarily #out #public

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athlete #best #big #day #fastest