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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."
138
"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."
90
"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."
73
"Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that."
70
"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
67
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
65
"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
64
"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
64
"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."
63
"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
63
"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral."
63
"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."
61
"Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker."
57
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
57
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
57
"Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house."
56
"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."
56
"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
56
"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself."
56
"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."
55
"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
55
"But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky."
51
"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."
50
"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."
50
"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"
49
"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
49
"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."
48
"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!"
48
"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it."
46
"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."
46
"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."
45
"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."
45
"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."
44
"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
44
"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."
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