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• I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

  Charlie Haden

  Art, People, Band

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• I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

  Lil' Kim

  Philosophy, Animal, Said

  Song: I'm Human, Album: The Notorious K.I.M.

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• The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

  James Buchan

  Political, West, Financial

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• When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

  Jacques Parizeau

  Men, People, Tradition

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• If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.

  Fred Seibert

  Character, People, Recognition

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.

  John Tesh

  Jobs, Half, Said

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• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

  Walter Cronkite

  Doctors, Years, Play

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• They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
  Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

  Marcus Garvey

  Running, Men, Brain

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, School, Cities

  Randall Jarrell, “Losses”

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• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Tom Hooper

  Fire, Land, Enemy

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• It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Ambition, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Sound, Jargon

  Theodor Adorno (2013). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.6, Routledge

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• They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Memories, Keys

  Song: Baby Grand, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

  Demosthenes

  People, March, Remember

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• Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

  Ann Coulter

  Past, Say Anything, Unfair

  "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)". Book by Ann Coulter, 2004.

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• When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

  Mike Huckabee

  Father, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  The Republican Presidential debate on Fox News Channel in Orlando, Fla., www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2007.

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• People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me -- they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sex, Heart, Nuts

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• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  Randall Jarrell

  Voice, Age, Novelists

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and he said a prayer for me but nothing happened. The second day she called the Mormons, and they said a prayer for me and my face was healed, so my whole life was going around as a Jew who was giving talks in Mormon churches about being healed by the Mormons.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Prayer, Giving

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

  Harold Washington

  Cities, Chicago, United States

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Said, Draught

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

  Will Rogers

  Real, Government, Oklahoma

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• They said you could not make it. Prove them wrong.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Prove Them Wrong, Said

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