Chamberlain Quote by Billy Wilder

“I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.”

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When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

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It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other…

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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

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Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

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The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

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[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable…

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Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

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I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the…

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Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

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My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

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