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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

A few people have said I should let you win

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.

As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

The less said about me the better.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?