Say Anything Quotes - Page 17

• I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the person to look at it, and quietly in their brain, they can just put it together and say, "Cool, that one works".

  Demetri Martin

  Brain, Together, Looks

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• I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

  John Cusack

  Optimistic, Play, Interesting

  "I'm basically a brand" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.

  John Cusack

  Real, People, Great Love

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• I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

  Neil Gaiman

  Lunch, People, Tables

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• Nobody says anything to me now when it comes to Japanese. They actually ask me things. I now have power!

  Seungri

  Ask Me, Asks

  "[INTERVIEW] Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Kwon Seok-jung, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Judging, Hue, Facts

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The nudity is down to the individual actor or actress. If they feel comfortable and it's done in a way that they feel comfortable doing, then who am I to say anything?

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Actors, Done, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who were desperate for that kind of material. They didn't say anything, didn't tell anybody.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  People, Common, Kind

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.

  Leonard Peltier

  Believe, Native American, Long

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

  Glenn Danzig

  Views, Fascists, Democrat

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

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• We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Country, Stupid

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• The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Rocks, People, Together

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Donald Trump very confident in his standing with his supporters and one who could do and say anything and have it not affect him. It's like he's the ultimate Teflon candidate if he feels like he can say things like that at a rally.

  Don Gonyea

  Teflon, Trump, Feels

  "As Caucus Day Nears, Trump And Cruz Make Big Push In Iowa". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 23, 2016.

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• So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It's not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many different stories from many different perspectives has something to do with me trying to deal with the impossibility of having a wide enough view to say anything really convincing on that scale.

  Lucy Corin

  Ideas, Views, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything.

  Glenn Beck

  Oil, Special, Bigger

  "The Mad Corporate World of Glenn Beck". Interview with Norman Solomon, www.guernicamag.com. December 20, 2007.

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• It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.

  Ted Cruz

  Mean, Gay, Homosexual Marriage

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

  George Washington

  Men, Scruples, Smallest

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

  Abraham Cowley

  Nice, Heart, Men

  Abraham Cowley, John Max Attenborough (1915). “Essays and Selected Verse: With an Introd”

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• Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Would Be, Modesty

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• When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Giving, Special

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

  Mary Stewart

  Believe, Gossip, Next

  Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

  Joan of Arc

  Truth, Fire, Saws

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• If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Distance, Heart

  Ethel Smyth (1987). “The memoirs of Ethel Smyth”, Viking Pr

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• the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.

  Rosita Forbes

  Littles, Desert, Ends

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.

  Louis C. K.

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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