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• Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

  Sam Sheppard

  After Hours, Insult, Comeback

  Sam Sheppard (1966). “Endure and conquer”

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Building, Accusation

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June, 1935.

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• When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

  Elizabeth Banks

  College, Shoes, Two

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• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  Dan Quayle

  Way, Vote, Republican

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• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Lionel Trilling

  Neurosis, Judgment, Ends

  "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

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• During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marriage, Running, Gay

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• Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

  Jacques Verges

  Thinking, People, Office

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• Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

  Sargent Shriver

  Enthusiasm, Being Accused

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  People, Interviews, Offense

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Clare Short

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Years, Prejudice

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Confusion, Matter, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

  Kurt Busch

  Fabrication

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• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, Atheism

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• I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Mold, Willing

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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

  John Calvin

  Men, People, Faces

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• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  Carlos Santana

  Player, Wake Up, Lyrical

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• The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

  Christian Carion

  Character, Cat, Army

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• Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

  Reggie White

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

  Nick Cohen

  Religious, Attitude, Islamic

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• I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Mean

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