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I give you my word. I will halt this invasion cold. Six months after I become president, a security fence will be erected on the Mexican border, and I will use troops if necessary to defend it.
-- Republican candidate Patrick Buchanan |
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I'm running for president of the United States because I believe that - with strong leadership - America's days will always lie ahead of us. Just as they lie ahead of us now.
-- Republican nominee Bob Dole, campaigning in Michigan |
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There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.
-- Richard Branson |
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I'm responsible for the way it looks, the way it sounds, the way it's cast, what the locations look like, what the script's like, how the fucking shoes are tied and how your fucking hair is done. So back off and have the good grace to give me a little bit of space to coordinate these things at which I'm maybe one of the best. I say it's not just about you. Ultimately, it's about me.
-- Ridley Scott |
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
-- Robert Benchley |
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It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.
-- Robert Ludlum |
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A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."
-- Robert Wise, Director of Star Trek |
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Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
-- Robin Williams |
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Evil visited us yesterday, and we don't know why.
-- Ron Taylor, headmaster of he school in Dunblane, Scotland, where a gunman killed sixteen 5- and 6- y |
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
-- Samuel Johnson |
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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
-- Samuel Johnson |
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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
-- Sigmund Freud |
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Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
-- Simon Newcomb, 1902, eighteen months before Kitty Hawk |
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Because it's there.
-- Sir Edmund Hillary, when questioned why he wanted to climb Mount Everest |
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Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
-- Sophia Loren |
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