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301 They Came quotes by 264 unique authors
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Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but…
— Richard Petty
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I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made…
— Roman Coppola
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They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.
— Richard Thompson
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Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up…
— Stedman Graham
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As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the…
— Nikki Haley
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Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing…
— Richard Hell
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My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family,…
— Stana Katic
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I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.
— Saxby Chambliss
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Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear,…
— Guy Kawasaki
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I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.
— Troy King
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It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's…
— Neil Gaiman
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Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would…
— Richard Masur
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[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost…
— Steve Jobs
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
— St. Jerome
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Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so…
— Buddy Guy
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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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Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman'…
— Will Rogers
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Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer…
— Frederick Lenz
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I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have.…
— Rob McElhenney
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In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away…
— Sarah Schulman
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am…
— E. M. Forster
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My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came…
— William J. Clinton
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The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told…
— Madonna Ciccone
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you…
— Khalil Gibran
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