- Just
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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.
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a Food Emporium and Waldbaum's and A&P kid, and Trader Joe's came with their own line of products that all seem healthy, even though they probably aren't. That said, I do love the dried fruit because it's made without the sulfates and the sulfur dioxides and preservatives and is totally delicious.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that.
- Vote
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said 'no' nine times when Kanye asked me to work with him because I liked being friends with him. Then he put me in a position where I couldn't say no: He just told everyone I was his manager.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The makers of 'Ushakaal' said that if I don't do the film they would shelve the project. I didn't want a good subject to be shelved because of me so I went ahead and did the film.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020