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474 They Said quotes by 416 unique authors
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They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.
— Billy Nungesser
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If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words…
— Amy Sedaris
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It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the…
— The Miz
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That's all they said was wrong with me?
— Mike Tyson
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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation…
— George Will
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it…
— Wendell Berry
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The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists…
— James Buchan
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When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In…
— Jacques Parizeau
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If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very…
— Fred Seibert
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I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work…
— John Tesh
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Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying…
— Kristi Yamaguchi
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I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up…
— Wendy Liebman
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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
— George Thorogood
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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.
— Billy Idol
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They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and…
— Shirley Knight
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested…
— Michael Azerrad
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
— Adam Baldwin
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I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have…
— Toni Braxton
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But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and…
— Brad Carson
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I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading…
— Jimmy Carr
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Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great…
— Charles S. Dutton
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I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said…
— Alexi Giannoulias
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I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could…
— Katherine Helmond
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big…
— Charlie Haden
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