Said Quotes
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
