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I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

Justin Guarini

Management, Bigs, Said

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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Pounds, Literature, Four

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.94

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They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.

J. C. Watts

Uncles, Thinking, Race

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A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Renny Harlin

Movie, Government, Foundation

Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.

Ozwald Boateng

Fashion, Moving, Two

"Ozwald Boateng: does my head look big in this?". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

They said this mystery never shall cease:
The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

William Blake

War, Circles, Soldier

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

George Will

Sports, Religious, Greek

George F. Will (2010). “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball”, p.2, Harper Collins

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Wendell Berry

Mean, People, Justice

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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

George Thorogood

Friendship, Jobs, Cutting

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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

Billy Idol

Hair, Rocks, Play

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

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They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shirley Knight

Nice, Vanity, Magazines

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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

Michael Azerrad

Giving, Rolling, Dollars

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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Adam Baldwin

Couple, Pilots, Said

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I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

Toni Braxton

Mean, Heart, Doctors

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

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That's all they said was wrong with me?

Mike Tyson

Boxing, Said, Mike

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It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the whole time. She actually asked the stocking people if she could hang next to me, but they said no - because it's PG.

The Miz

Jobs, Wwe, People

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If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.

Amy Sedaris

Trying, Lines, Way

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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

Evelyn Glennie

Musician, London, Royal

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I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Sarah Vowell

Crazy, Nuts, Madness

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We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

John Thaw

Hands, Cameras, Three

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They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Bobby Vinton

Change, Cutting, Numbers

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In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Mary Hart

Organization, News, Stories

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Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

Henci Goer

Believe, Doctors, Trying

Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

Boris Becker

Sports, Reading, Thinking

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When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Pele

Soccer, Men, Mia

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