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I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

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

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

All my Doctor's said I should become a model.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Vince McMahon said alright, we're going to call you the Blue Blazer.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.