- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
He Quotes
Third-person praise, from the field to the set.
This page collects quotes that describe someone else directly — a scouting comment on a hitter's known weakness, and warm praise for a footballer's skill and standing among peers. For identity-focused sayings, see Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done serving as county commissioner, at Archer Daniels Midland.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked during summers on the foreign exchange desk as a dollar/yen broker for Noonan, Astley & Pierce. I used to write the chairman notes about how he could improve his business. And I met Bernie Cantor through this job.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.
- Exalt
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- Nov 07, 2020
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
- Pretend
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- Nov 07, 2020
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
- Frenchman
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- Nov 07, 2020