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Saying Quotes
"Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along."
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"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."
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"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
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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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"I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going."
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"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
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"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."
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"Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that."
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"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."
10
"A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did."
10
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
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"I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet."
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"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."
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"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
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"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
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"I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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"The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned."
8
"No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell."
8
"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."
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"Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality."
8
"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
8
"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
8
"But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky."
8
"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself."
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"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."
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"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."
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"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
8
"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"
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"Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house."
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"Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal."
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