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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
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"When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries."

"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."

"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."

"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."

"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."

"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."
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"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
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