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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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- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody said being platinum was easy.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of truth is said in jest.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been auditions where they've said nicely, 'Would you be willing to go to the gym for this role?'
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020