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When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

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• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

• Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Free

• The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • People
  • Bad
  • Fun

• If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Men
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• In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Good
  • Player

• Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Encouraging

• I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Done

• Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Accessories

• Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Men
  • Sex
  • Pay

• Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Work
  • Greek
  • Ergometer

• Maybe it was three strikes, because not only was she an intellectual, she was a feminist. Which meant that if she ever managed to finish this book, reviewers...

  

  Brian Morton
  • Book
  • Feminist
  • Reviewers

• I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'

  

  Craig Horner
  • Remember
  • Team
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• In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • America
  • Muslims
  • George Washington

• The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Boat
  • General
  • Terrorists

• When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

  

  Prince
  • George Washington
  • Eight Presidents