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  • Oscar Wilde I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
    The remarkable Rocket
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dan Quayle I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Ang Lee I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Agatha Christie I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bill Clinton I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
    pressconference, 26 januari 1998
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Imelda Marcos I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • John Stuart Mill I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative.
    Debat in Parlement (31 May 1866)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Lord George Byron I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Dolly Parton I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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