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Saying Quotes
"I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that."
49
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
49
"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."
47
"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."
47
"A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did."
47
"While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying."
46
"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
43
"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."
43
"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."
43
"This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed."
42
"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
41
"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
41
"The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying."
41
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
41
"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
40
"It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?"
40
"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."
40
"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
40
"I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it."
40
"At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying."
40
"This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting."
39
"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."
38
"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
37
"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."
36
"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."
36
"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
36
"If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there."
35
"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
18
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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