Nothing New Quotes

I haven‘t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

In my opinion, there’s nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

No matter how many awards you‘ve won or how many sales you’ve got, come the next book it’s still a blank sheet of paper and you’re still panicking like hell that you’ve got nothing new to say.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one’s perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country‘s first celebrity politicians.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It’s easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

The Seekers have done most things that you’d want to do and when we broke up in the ’60s it was partly because we sort of felt we’d done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.

If you really probe, people are anxious about their job, anxious about their home, their children‘s future. Obviously it gets translated into things like immigration, but that is nothing new.

I have always fought for respect, I have always fought for survival, so fighting is nothing new to me.

We talk about globalization today as if it’s some great big new thing, that we’ve all just discovered. But there’s really nothing new about it.

Nothing wrong with retouching – nothing new about retouching.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

It’s true that you often have arguments with players as you do in everyday life and that’s nothing new.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you’re a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were ‘historically obsolete‘ and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared.

There’s nothing new about women playing pivotal parts or title roles in films. Women in strong characters have always been accepted. It has been this way for years.

Every year you have to perform and win. There is nothing new for me as far as I am concerned. But the truth of the matter is you do have to perform, you do have to produce.

I’m saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does.

There’s nothing new about fashionable women borrowing from men’s style; just think of Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, or Diane Keaton.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there’s nothing new.

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

There’s nothing new, even ‘new’ is inspired by something. We’re all, either consciously or unconsciously, we’re inspired.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

I won’t tackle something like furries, because there’s nothing new to say. Also, I won’t do anything that I think will put my life at risk.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

No More Avengers! There’s nothing new to get out of it – I want to go forward, not backward.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that’s always a bad sign. They remade ‘Frankenstein‘ 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it’s not a new phenomenon.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it.

A new era doesn’t come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way.

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new – it’s a cottage industry.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state.

There’s nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

My whole life, I’ve been called ‘Just a pretty face,’ or, ‘You’ll never amount to anything, you don’t really have anything to offer, but your looks.’ It’s never defined who I am, I mean, I’ve heard it my whole life, it’s nothing new.

Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.

As someone who’s been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

Don’t be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we’re just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again – so what makes people keep watching and listening? It’s all about the character.

Giving back to your community – we’ve done that forever, that’s nothing new.

I’ve heard all my life how I’m too short or not big enough to play this game. It’s nothing new.

‘There’s nothing new under the sun’: that’s what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

Soul music as we’ve always known it hasn’t changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

In football, I’m not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as… you might say an ‘old fox.’ Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it’s nothing new.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.