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5201 quotes by 3036 authors
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I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own…
— Erle Stanley Gardner
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I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have…
— Roald Dahl
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To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat…
— Peter DeFazio
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Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
— Gregg Allman
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One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and…
— Tom Glazer
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'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
— Bruce Schneier
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The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.
— Jon Jones
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When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
— Emilio Ambasz
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(When asked what a director does) I help.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.
— Lenny Wilkens
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but…
— Tony Hsieh
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Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will…
— Louis Wigfall
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Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
— Abraham Lincoln
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