Dodging Bullets Quotes

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  If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doors, Lgbt Pride

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination (the version of recording given to Frank Robinson) as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 372), 1982.

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  Larry Miller

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

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  People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Magic, Bullets

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

  John Sedgwick

  Elephants, Civil War, Infantry

  Quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887 - 1888). This line is popularly said to have been Sedgwick's last words and to have been cut off in the middle of "distance." In fact, this was Sedgwick's second-to-last sentence and was completed before the bullet hit.

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• You cannot run faster than a bullet.

  Idi Amin

  Running, Military, Evil

  Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

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• We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

  "Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

  Kid Cudi

  Life Is Like, Target, Bullets

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• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

  Dean Acheson

  Military, Self, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

  Clara Barton

  Soldier, Doe, Coats

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• Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

  Mackenzie Astin

  Gun, Availability, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

  Bob Feller

  Hero, Names, Soldier

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• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  United States, Bullets, September

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• What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

  John Sedgwick

  War, Distance, Men

  John Sedgwick's final words said by him to his men who were ducking for cover at the battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

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• Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

  Mark Zandi

  Maturity, Years, Three

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• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Ideas, Dallas, World

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• I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

  Peter Bergen

  Blood, Leader, Navy

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

  Kathy Griffin

  Hate, Writing, Style

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• Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

  Larry Flynt

  Thinking, Years, Bullets

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

  Andrew Cuomo

  People, Battle, Citizens

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• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Bullets, Belts

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• I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Gun, Bombs

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. April 23, 2007.

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• Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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• I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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