Said Quotes
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The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
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That's all they said was wrong with me?
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I never said most of the things I said.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
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When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
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My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
