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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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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
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"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."
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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 succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
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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."
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"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
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"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."
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"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
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"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
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"Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker."
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"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."
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"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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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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"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
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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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"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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"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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"I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it."
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"Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house."
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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."
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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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"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
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"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
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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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"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."
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"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!"
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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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"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
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"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
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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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