Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1788.
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography (1879) -
The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
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The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
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The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
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The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
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The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
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The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
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The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The biggest thing about being a wrestler and being Goldberg gave me, was the ability to be a superhero for kids. I want the ability to be that guy again.
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
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The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
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