Quotes with said-that

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  • Beth Ditto There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Maurice Switzer There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
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  • Cass Sunstein There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Babe Ruth There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
    Source: Farewell Address
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Ben Platt There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bobby Vinton 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
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bradley Denton This is coercion, Bruce thundered.
    The patrolman smiled. No, sir, he said. This is Texas.
    Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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