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5201 quotes by 2862 authors
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If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus…
— Ron Reagan
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Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face…
— Kofi Annan
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People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy…
— Bill Hicks
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The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I…
— Bill Hicks
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For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes…
— Jay Rockefeller
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
— Adam Zagajewski
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I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a…
— Harry Redknapp
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I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else;…
— Mary Hart
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When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my…
— Cornelia Parker
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Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.
— Dan Rice
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Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.
— Paul Leautaud
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A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice…
— Mark Kostabi
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought…
— Gerald R. Ford
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If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take…
— Rachel Carson
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't…
— Walter Cronkite
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We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to…
— Rachel Carson
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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among…
— Patsy Cline
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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in…
— Black Hawk
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When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it…
— John Muir
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
— Gerald R. Ford
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