- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Said Quotes
Words spoken, decisions made.
This collection centers on moments of speaking up — reciting the rosary as part of a faith practice, warning lawmakers about foreign policy risk before Congress, and casting a vote that came with real consequences at the United Nations. For more on personal conviction, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, 'I'm just from the Valley!' Just from the San Fernando Valley!
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.
- Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020