Best They Gave Sayings
247 They Gave quotes by 213 unique authors
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I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it…
— Unknown Author
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The names Lillian Smith, Eric Dazey, Jon Bullock, and Clari Higginson may mean nothing to most people but the mean the world to me. Of…
— Robert Cheeke
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
— Dan DeCarlo
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They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped…
— Tony Curtis
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I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships…
— Alonzo Church
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I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I…
— Boris Becker
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
— Thomas A. Edison
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I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.
— Pete Yorn
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They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these…
— Keira Knightley
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Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but…
— Beryl Bainbridge
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a…
— Karel Reisz
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And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who…
— J D Hayworth
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They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.
— Michael Rosenbaum
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to…
— Fay Wray
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In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted…
— Robert Wagner
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I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
— Don Henley
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I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an…
— Harry S. Truman
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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
— Robert Plant
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as…
— Josephine Baker
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
— Bernard Malamud
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By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the…
— Mitch McConnell
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Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom…
— Lea Thompson
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