They Said Quotes

• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Jail, Eight

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• They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

  Roddy McDowall

  New York, Boys, Play

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• I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Dark, Horror Stories

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• The media is to blame for everything, for all the misconceptions about the movement, but in a sense it didn't really matter if they said something good or bad, because Krishna consciousness always seemed to transcend that barrier anyway. The fact that the media was letting people know about Krishna was good in itself.

  George Harrison

  Media, People, Movement

  "Why being a Beatle was not enough". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2001.

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• The leaks are real. You're the one that wrote about them and reported them, I mean the leaks are real. You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Mean, Fake

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, People, Speech

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• I'm not bullish. I think they [Iran] have total disrespect for our country and I understand that deal. I would have lived with it if they said "OK, were all together now," but it's just the opposite. It's like they're emboldened. They follow our planes, they circle our ships with their little boats and they lost respect because they can't believe anybody could be so stupid as to make a deal like that.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Stupid, Believe

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• Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.

  George Carlin

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• [Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time." Today it wouldn't even matter, because they don't care if you can read.

  Paul Laffoley

  Party, Past, Night

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

  Samantha Barks

  Girl, Parent, Alive

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• I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

  Sharon Tate

  Sweet, Mean, Simple

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• But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

  Michael Weatherly

  Names, Tape, Pieces

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• They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.

  Casey Stengel

  Success, Wisdom, Work Out

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• Forgive yourself for believing things about yourself that are not true. Forgive yourself for believing that you were anything other than a child of God. Then, after forgiving yourself for believing the things you were told, forgive the people who told you. Forgive them not for what they said or did. Forgive them because they did not know any better.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 21, 2013

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• We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

  Smokey Robinson

  White, Black, Listening

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• When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

  Russell Brand

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Complaining

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Crowds, Hell, Made

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

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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Parent, Lessons

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• It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their stories, their histories, their real live human feelings. We don't know their favorite movies and best memories and what makes them afraid. It is unfair to take one fact, one thing they've said or we heard they said, or one thing they wrote, or someone else's experience, or a group they identify with and make a character sketch. If people did that to us, the picture would be so woefully incomplete, we wouldn't even recognize our own description.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Memories, Real, Character

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• I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.

  Simon Helberg

  Hipster, Eye, Cities

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• First, let me just say that I flew in from Los Angeles last evening. And the plane was absolutely filled with women who were coming from the Greater Los Angeles area to be here. And it wasn't that they were necessarily organized in some particular group. Individual women that I talked to - I said, well, who are you with? They said I'm not with anybody. I just decided I couldn't stay home. I just got up, and I came [to the Women's March].

  Maxine Waters

  Home, Groups, Lasts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

  David Copperfield

  Wall, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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