We’ve collected the best Says Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Kendall Jenner, Ben Askren, Joy Mangano, Kristen Stewart, Herodotus. Use them as an inspiration.
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Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it’s almost embarrassing that he represents our country that way.
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The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, ‘Ah, now we know why you are doing it.’
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.
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Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
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The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says ‘you’re cute‘, I’ll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says ‘you make me laugh so much’.
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The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, ‘What shall we do about this?’ And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.
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We like the opportunity to get off to a fast start, no matter what our schedule says, and that’s our objective.
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Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case.
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If someone says ‘grunge‘ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.
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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
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If you were to make a commercial, or do a magazine ad that says ‘let’s get ready to rumble’ to draw attention to your product, you’ve stolen my property.
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Chandler’s the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.
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It’s supposed to be fun, the man says ‘Play Ball’ not ‘Work Ball’ you know.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don’t mind.
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The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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Everybody always says that I’m the girl next door, which makes me think that y’all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
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Sometimes, people say, ‘You need to fight smart.’ After a fight gets started I don’t know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, ‘Calm down. Calm.’
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In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it’s not just hair. I mean, I’m interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
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My husband says I look like a Q-tip.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, ‘I want to destroy government.’
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The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there’s some things worth dying for.
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When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.
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The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
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That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
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As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
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It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
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Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
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I would say that without any doubt he’s the killer – the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I – there’s no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
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I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says ‘I was afraid‘ of a big black guy, that’s enough to say, ‘Okay, not guilty,’ or, ‘No indictment.’ It’s persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
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As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
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You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.
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The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.
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There’s quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.
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President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.
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Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
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I was doing all these hand exercises, trying to move things like other kids, catch things like other kids, and change my reflexes, and I guess I just didn’t stop. That’s why if somebody says to me, ‘Can I learn this?’ I will say, ‘Probably, if you can get the psychology right.’
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Girls like to see a guy who takes care of himself. It says a lot about him.
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don’t do it. What is it about America? It says we don’t value children and families. We are hypocrites.
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President of the United States is you know, our boss, so you know, the President and the First Lady are kinda like the Mom and the Dad of the country. And when your Dad says something you listen.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever‘s in them rises to the surface in free play.
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I’m not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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All my stories were usually titled, ‘White House Says,’ ‘President Bush Wants,’ and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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My son always says I like very weird music.
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It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It’s not because anyone in their right mind says, ‘You know, what’s the most fascinating thing in the world?’ It’s because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
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My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, ‘You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I’m not your agent, and I’m not your mommy; I’m a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?’ and I really, really don’t. I’ll go peaceable-like.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I’ve got a young man who works for me who says you don’t need to discover your dreams – you need to recover them.
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I don’t mind what people say about me as long as it’s an opinion or the truth. If someone says, ‘He’s the worst comedian in the world,’ that’s fine. If someone says, ‘His face makes me want to punch the TV,’ that’s fine. But if they say, ‘Oh, and I know for a fact he hunts squirrels,’ I go: no, no, no… that’s a lie.
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I think it’s disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when someone says it in public, it’s so terrifying they have to persecute that person.
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I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don’t know quite when to do it. My mum says, ‘There’s never a right time; you’ve just got to get on with it’.
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Your body hears everything your mind says.
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, ‘Let’s go make a horror film.’ It’s the genre that never dies.
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I don’t think people shouldn’t try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
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Whatever my agent says to do, I usually do.
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And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you’re healthier than if you don’t. In fact, there’s no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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The ‘Course in Miracles‘ says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
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Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you’ve been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.
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My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough.
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Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it’s difficult because the beauty business says, ‘If you don’t look a certain way, God made a mistake.’
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
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Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, ‘Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.’
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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’
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Naturalism says that we were not put here for any purpose. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t such thing as purpose. It just means that purpose isn’t imposed from outside. We human beings have the creative ability to give our lives purposes and meanings.
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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
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There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, ‘You never know.’
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There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ‘If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.’
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Don’t let anybody fool you who says Islam can be moderated. It will not be moderated in a million years.
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Sometimes I’ll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he’s a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I’m too cynical.
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I’m now convinced that I’m a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I’m like, ‘Well, that’s your spleen.’
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It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.
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I am always open to when someone says, ‘Let’s do it this way.’
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Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
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I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn’t as hard as everyone says it is.
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God’s word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.
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I am not a person who says I must talk the same way to every player, I don’t agree with this. Some are more introspective, we must act in a different way, the fuel of every player is different.
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What I really like about ‘Grit‘ – especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says ‘Never Give Up’ and who truly tries to live his life to that credo – we recruited 16 people who said, ‘I will never give up.’ And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
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My wife says to do the dishes, and I’m like, ‘Yes, baby. I can clean up.’
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If somebody says I’m a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it’s the ultimate compliment.
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In just my own neighborhood, you can’t go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, ‘Everyone’s welcome here,’ ‘Refugees are welcome here.’ I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten’, he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting – only woman at the table – and I’d think, ‘OK well, I don’t think I’ll say that. It may sound stupid.’ And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it’s completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn’t feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren’t valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
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I’m the kind of guy that says nothing is impossible when you work hard.
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I’ve been reading this little book. It’s called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don’t want to hear those who say we’re appealing to the authorities. Who’s the power here?
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In her verse, she says: ‘It’s me and Karol G, and we let the rats talk.’ I died, I revived, I died and revived again until I understood Nicki Minaj had said my name in her verse.
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‘The Fever‘ is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I’m not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.
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‘No’ is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.
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I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there’s a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
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If it’s stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it’s film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
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If someone who knows what’s going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
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I hate a man who always says ‘yes’ to me. When I say ‘no’ I like a man who also says ‘no.’
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Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
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A press statement may be given with a very good intention, but it says nothing beyond it. If it comes from corporations they run, then it is corporate social responsibility (CSR). That’s different from philanthropy. CSR is a lot of shareholders, including me.
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There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.
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I don’t know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
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When the Queen says ‘well done,’ it means so much.
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You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won’t go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time‘s up.
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That moment in ‘Broadcast News’ where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it’s awful – I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn’t help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Obama doesn’t run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says ‘Socialist.’ But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.
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When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn’t necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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Advertising says to people, ‘Here’s what we’ve got. Here’s what it will do for you. Here’s how to get it.’
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When it comes to the draft process, I’m going to be – I’m not going to say anything stupid – but I’m going to be my authentic, true self, and hopefully someone in an organization says, ‘That’s my guy.’
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A majority of Bon Qui Qui is my little brother, who is ghetto fabulous. He has no filter whatsoever. He just says what’s on his mind.
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Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
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I don’t like it when a player says, ‘I like freedom; I want to play for myself.’ Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.
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If you’re honest about things, people will trust you, even if you’re a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.
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I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men – wealthy men – never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says ‘yes,’ because that’s indigenous to that country.
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When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.
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The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.
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My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.
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I don’t really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don’t see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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I guess the President says the majority of the people didn’t elect him, he doesn’t have to listen to ’em anyway.
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My husband says I’m a grumpy lioness.
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Martial arts is like dance. It’s so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.
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Bill Murray doesn’t do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he’s going to do.
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Everyone says I’m like the girl next door… Y’all must have really weird neighbors!
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I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.
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Sometimes… I can’t believe what mum says or does when she’s being really dramatic.
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My definition of a ‘friend’ is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, ‘Yeah, sure. You know what? Let’s talk about what we can talk about. Let’s help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.’
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A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
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In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
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I wouldn’t wear turtlenecks. That I’m not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, ‘Hey, didn’t you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?’
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Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what’s right for the team, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, I didn’t mean that. I want to win, but…’ There’s always a conjunction with that. It’s never what you think it is. And it’s always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.
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You know what the Englishman‘s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, ‘You speak English with a good accent.’ You either speak English, or you don’t: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
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The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
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I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family.’ I don’t feel that sense of urgency.
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Nothing’s impossible, because in the word ‘impossible,’ it says, ‘I’m possible.’ Always know that no matter what, you can always do it, and don’t let anybody tell you differently.
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I’m often asked where my nickname ‘Kun’ comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.
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When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
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I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn’t get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.
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If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I’ll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He’s an auteur, but I’m not.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I love fat people. Every fat person says it’s not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
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The devil says I’m out, but the Lord says I’m safe.
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The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
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When someone comes up to me and says, ‘Mary, you helped save my marriage’, or, ‘Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship’, I’m in it, really in their lives. And I’m so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
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But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there’s only one Savior.
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There’s a verse in the Bible says, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’ And what brings me peace is the scripture.
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We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
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Anyone who says they are a hard man – they aren’t.
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‘Work and wait’, ‘work and wait’ is what God says to us in creation.
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I’m willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn’t. That’s because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you’ll never hear about on television.
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Courage doesn’t come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it’s a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney‘s plans would make things worse.
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What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, ‘Me, too,’ and style, ‘Only me.’
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If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.
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No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
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It’s rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, ‘To hell with the consequences.’
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As my manager says, ‘These are wonderful problems.’
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The thing is, I make music I like. So it’s just weird if someone says they don’t like it.
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I’d probably say I’m very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.’
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
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If you want to truly stand up for women’s reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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I really don’t act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to me, or it won’t ring true. No matter what the script says, there’s no audience and no footlights and no camera for me. There’s no make-believe. It’s for real.
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I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’
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Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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There’s a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it’s interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it’s totally different. It’s based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea.’
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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I’m not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don’t understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren’t we?
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you’ve got and the kind of team we’ve got.
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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I like Burton Malkiel’s ‘A Random Walk Down Wall Street.’ He comes to the same conclusion that I do – that indexing is the way. My ‘Little Book of Common Sense Investing‘ says pretty much the same thing.
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Acting was a lot like football. When you’re a DB and you’re one on one with a receiver, you’re going to dance. It’s go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That’s exactly how it is when a director says ‘Action!’ It’s the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.
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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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I’m a very consistent leader, and people won’t find me different day to day. You won’t have to have the sort of conversation that says, ‘How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?’ You won’t find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
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I refuse to totally grow up. I’ve always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
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My mother always says that you are successful only when you are capable of helping somebody. So I feel whatever I could do I could do only with the blessings of my parents.
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I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it’s not their cup of tea, it’s not their kind of album, that’s fine by me.
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The first thing I think about when somebody says you’re going to be the first Muslim is celebrate this moment.
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No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it.
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If someone comes to me and says they’re not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody’s loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.
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Everyone looks me and says, ‘I’m not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I’m going to go at him.’ That’s how it’s been my whole life.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
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I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, ‘Machine Gun Kelly‘ – it is very loud, and it says a lot.
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I know Jim Cornette says the reason that I’m successful now is because I changed my attitude, and I must be listening to what people tell me now, and I used to not listen to him. But the thing is, I used to not listen to him or question his methods because I didn’t agree with him, and I didn’t share his vision.
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Now my grandmother, who used to want sons, says that she does not really want boys anymore. She says I’m the lion of the family.
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
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No one ever comes up to me and says, ‘Hey man, I loved your work in ‘Road Trip.’ They say, ‘Are you that guy?’ Like, they have no idea. ‘Were you in ‘American Pie 2?’
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The press doesn’t stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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My mom always says, ‘If you don’t believe in something, you’ll lose yourself completely.’
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When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It’s something like that.
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You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you’ve got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it’s not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.
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They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’
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When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he’s referring to.
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Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says – ‘Notice me, feed me, mother me’ – is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded ‘normality‘ it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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Somebody says, ‘Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,’ and it sounds like something out of ‘Hee Haw,’ very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
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You’re your truest self when you’re young, and when somebody says something, and you’re like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not normal,’ you shut it down. It’s always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.
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I’m the elected sheriff, and I’m going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.
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I don’t put myself on Jeff Beck’s level, but I can relate to him when he says he’d rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
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I can’t find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it’s an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they’re required to not have abortions, could die and could – so I favor a woman’s right to choose.
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I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our vast and inspiring history in this land not mentioned in the official picture like that.
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In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
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Money coming in says I’ve made the right marketing decisions.
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It’s hard to argue with a coach who says, ‘I just want you to work.’ What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
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‘Lonesome Dove‘ by Larry McMurtry and ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author’s writing.
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I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
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I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with ‘Endgame,’ where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.
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Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we’d kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
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The body says what words cannot.
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With so many serious issues and responsibilities before the United States Senate, I think New York needs an independent senator who thinks for herself, not someone who just rubberstamps the Obama agenda or checks with Chuck Schumer and says, ‘Me too.’
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Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
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President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.
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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
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My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, ‘Garden, Papa!’ and then he eats what he picks.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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I’m in the camp that says that if you’re to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.
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Everybody wants financial security for their family, and when a player says otherwise, he’s lying.
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No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.
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Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.
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Well, I – you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you’re not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
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I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.
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Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
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Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.
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To anybody who says to me, ‘I’m in character,’ I say, ‘You should be in an asylum.’ If you don’t know that you’re pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don’t have patience for that stuff.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I want to play football until my body says, ‘You can’t run anymore: you’re dead.’
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
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You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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I’ve lived with myself for a very long time, so I’m aware of what I look like. I’m under no false pretense that I’m a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it’s okay.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it’s different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn’t any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I’m basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach… and I love rap.
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A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
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The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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I’ll back up anything my dad says.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, ‘Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.’
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The Pledge of Allegiance says, ‘liberty and justice for all’.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I will tell you, I feel very, very bad for Kanye West. He’s not well, and that is the very foundation of everything he says.
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I want to be a person who says ‘Hey, if something is going on, come and tell me about it.’
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There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, ‘What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?’
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A lot of celebrities, especially when you’re talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
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If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
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When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
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Everyone says Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, but I would have love to have played with Luka Modric. I think he’s an incredible player, really strong mentally and a pure footballer.
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Anyone who says you can’t do anything with short hair is wrong! Every day, my style turns into something new, and there are so many different ways you can wear it.
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I don’t care what anyone says. It’s my life, and I can do what I like.
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I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.
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I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me.
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Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
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I love funny people, and when I’m with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, ‘Hey let me tell you a joke.’
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The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there’s a truth in your heart that says you’ll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you’ll catch me whenever I fall.
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy.
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People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: ‘I hope they’re doing well in school. I hope they’re bright.’ And I think: ‘Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?’ Academia is a lonely world.
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The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says ‘the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,’ and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.
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What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, ‘Nobu! I have done it!’
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People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven’t got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn’t matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’
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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters’ thoughts with great understanding and depth.
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I don’t think anyone really says anything new.
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We need to let the referee‘s sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says ‘knockdowns.’ Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it’s legal, we’ll make excuses for them.
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For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.
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Father’s Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, ‘This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.’
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Who says soul has only one colour?
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I don’t care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There’s something about it that’s different than a tomato you can buy. It’s a great thing.
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I’ll say I’m happy doing my thing. No one says ‘no comment’ anymore.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn’t tell me there’s a thing called the curveball. I didn’t know that. So the ball’s coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, ‘Strike one!’ And I’m saying, ‘How is that a strike? It almost hit me!’
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn’t end when you come off the court.
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I miss ‘EastEnders.’ I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently – they’ve asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I’m not quite ready for it.
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There’s no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, ‘No. You shouldn’t be doing that.’ And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
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There is no answer. That’s what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.
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Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.
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When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
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Everyone always says the middle child is the worst or whatever – what do they say? That everyone forgets about them? But that’s not true. That’s not true in my family.
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it’s cooperation versus competition.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.
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A book comes and says, ‘Write me.’ My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Everybody says before reviews come out, ‘Oh, reviews don’t matter,’ just in case they’re bad; everyone want to brace themselves.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I’m going to do it, if I can do it… Then I walk on set and the director says, ‘Roll’, and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it’s all happening, and I relax, and I’m doing what I do, and I’m not even thinking about it.
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It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.
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Political life is like this – elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, ‘That’s it. I will connect myself,’ – as I did – ‘connect my existence to a political project.’ Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, ‘If that fails, so do I’.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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I follow science and common sense. Science says you should eat a variety of foods and eat more fruits and vegetables – I do that.
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I don’t care what anyone says.
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Some people be game-goofy and words don’t sound right coming out of their mouthpiece. But whenever E-40 says something it’s just solidified.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.
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When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything.
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I don’t know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, ‘Viewer discretion is advised‘, then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, ‘Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.’
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Say what you want about George W. Bush, but the guy is a man’s man. He means what he says, and he says what he means. Whether you agree with the Texan or not, at least one always knows where they stand with him.
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I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.
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An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
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Everybody says, ‘You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.’ I say, ‘Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.’
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When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
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Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.
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Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, ‘See my movie,’ and it can still tank. Followers don’t always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it’s because people are connecting to it – not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.
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I’m getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says ‘I’ve never had an awkward moment with a girl’ is a liar.
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it’s self-defeating.
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The way that people feel changes everything. Feelings are forces. They cause us to time travel. And to leave ourselves, to leave our bodies. I would be that kind of psychologist who says, ‘You’re absolutely right – there are monsters under the bed.’
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When people wear shoes that don’t fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’
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It warms my heart more than anything when somebody comes up to me and says, ‘You inspired me to do this.’
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Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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I have a brother who’s a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.
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Religion is man-made. Every religion says my ‘God is the best.’
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I don’t care what ‘Pitchfork’ says. They write from a place that’s a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they’re talking about.
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I’m a big fan of Springsteen. Obviously, his social commentary is very powerful for me. I like his album ‘The Rising.’ It’s not a new one, but it sticks in my mind because of what it says to me.
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure – if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.
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I go to conventions all the time. I’m not one of those actors who’s public-shy, meaning I don’t mind when someone comes up. It doesn’t happen often in the real world because people don’t recognize me because I was in makeup, but when it does, I don’t usually mind it at all if somebody says something.
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When the magistrate says ‘That’s not a good enough reason my man.’ He said ‘Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?’
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When you’re talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
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Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples’ lives, and sometimes that’s very gratifying. But still, there’s this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence.
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I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says ‘open ethnicity.’
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I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I’ll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don’t think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
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Every time a child says I don’t believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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If you were to ask everyone what ‘Hamlet‘ was about, they might say, “It’s about a prince, and he says, ‘To be or not to be.'”
600
Whenever someone comes up to me and says, ‘I’m having trouble shopping.’ I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.
601
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, ‘My heart is deceitfully wicked.’ No, it’s not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
604
I don’t want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don’t want everybody to say, ‘interim champ‘ every time someone says Dustin was the champion.
605
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
606
I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.
607
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
608
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I was working with Bryan Cranston in ‘All the Way.’ We were about to make an entrance together – I was Hoover, he was LBJ – and he says to me, ‘You should play the brother in ‘Better Call Saul.’ I was like ‘What?’ and it was time to go on. I’m doing the scene, and I can’t think of what Hoover’s supposed to say.
611
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
612
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Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.
614
What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.
615
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
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In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
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619
There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.
620
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
621
If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
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623
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
624
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don’t remember that.
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This mum comes up, she’s got a five-year-old kid and she says, ‘Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the whole world.’ I thought, ‘How cool is that? I’ve got five-year-old fans,’ and as I’m signing this autograph, the mum goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, you’re by far the best Wiggle.’
627
Pride is ugly. It says, ‘If you succeed, I am a failure.’
628
When I read for ‘Girls,’ I was like, ‘The script says ‘Handsome Carpenter,’ so someone else is going to get the part. They’ll have someone handsome, not me.’
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Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’
631
Anytime somebody shares a personal story with me during autograph signings and someone comes up to me and shakes my hand and says thank you and I’m just like, wow. The fact that I can have an influence over somebody; it is heartwarming, it is the goal.
632
Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
633
There’s nothing in the Bible that says, ‘You must play video games.’
634
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
639
Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
640
College is something I’ve always said I wanted to do, but you’re going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I’m already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I’m in my own film college: filming a TV show.
641
642
I don’t condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You’re the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.
643
Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it.
644
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He who says o’er much I love not is in love.
646
I’m kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that’s just how I am.
647
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
648
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I’m recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it’s not as commonplace to be recognized.
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I love being an enigma. Every time I’m tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically – you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you’re pro-gun, or you’re anti-gun – I stop and say to myself, ‘This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can’t figure out.’
652
You wont hear anything from me that says I didn’t kill David. I did kill him.
653
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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What I will say is that there is no governing body in strongman. There’s no federation. There’s no group of people or person that overlooks the sport, or says that this is a world record, or ‘we’ll count this as a world record.’
658
When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
659
If somebody says, ‘That’s Elon’s mum,’ which happens quite a bit, they are usually stunned; sometimes they cry. I’m flattered because, I mean, to them, he’s saving the world. They just feel he’s the only hope.
660
661
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
662
There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.
663
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
664
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, ‘You saved my dad’s life.’
665
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
666
Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don’t understand what they’re talking about – we’re running that product, we’ve been using it for five years, what are they talking about?
667
The function of the killer and watching him – whatever that says about the world in which we live – it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It’s a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.
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I’m not going to be a guy that says, ‘Oh I want to get traded‘ and then go to a situation where I’m not happy.
675
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
679
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
680
I think it’s really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what’s going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that’s the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.
