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KINKY FRIEDMAN If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
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KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona...
TIKA SUMPTER People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhoo...
ZAC BROWN Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.
BILLY GRAHAM He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h...
JACK NICKLAUS We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ...
BEN E. KING He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it w...
JULIAN LENNON What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
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PAUL THEROUX Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably sh...
LEIF GARRETT I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
THOM GUNN I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking...
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HENRY MINTZBERG I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know eac...
CAREY MULLIGAN The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Mich...
MADELEINE STOWE People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'...
TERI GARR Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through h...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn...
KIESZA I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
MITCH MCCONNELL I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle grou...
CALLAN MCAULIFFE He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for the...
LYDIA DAVIS You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care abou...
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HUGO PRATT I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on th...
MICHAEL DELL Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing pie...
CAMPBELL BROWN Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
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EMMA THOMAS If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don'...
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UTADA HIKARU He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn...
NATHAN LANE I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec...
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SAMUEL BECKETT I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
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JACQUELINE BISSET I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
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NOEL GALLAGHER They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don...
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CAROL VORDERMAN I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
PAULA POUNDSTONE He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
VICTOR BORGE Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or w...
ANDY WARHOL I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,...
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ARIEL PINK This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and ...
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JOHN KRASINSKI What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He'...
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EMMANUELLE BEART I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot o...
GARRY SHANDLING Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.
LIL WAYNE We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
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FAITH EVANS I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
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BEN FELDMAN America was a thing I saw on TV - that wasn't a real world. That wasn't within my realm of d...
TREVOR NOAH I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou...
SALLY PEARSON I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don...
ELLE MACPHERSON I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
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LEONARD LAUDER War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
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DONALD TRUMP I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chech...
ANTHONY MARRA I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
RICHARD PRYOR Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we do...
RYAN HANSEN My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don&...
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BOB GELDOF My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was...
PAMELA ADLON When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and...
OSCAR NIEMEYER You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don...
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KINKY FRIEDMAN The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people with an agenda.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN The only thing wrong with Southern Baptists was they didn't hold them underwater long enough.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Why the Hell Not?
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KINKY FRIEDMAN Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign, ... I think we've got a real, real shot.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN But believe me, we can win this thing with a big turnout. And Rick Perry knows it. That's what the J...
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KINKY FRIEDMAN Whatever we're going to do, we're going to make it fun.
KINKY FRIEDMAN This is really happening. It isn't a dream, or maybe it is, but it's one long, long overdue.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN How sad for him to be hoping for a small turnout.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Our people are going to be with us, and her people are going to be with her, and there's plenty of t...
KINKY FRIEDMAN It's not a slam dunk.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness . . . but I did not swallow.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN I've always thought that she was pretty spunky. I like her spirit.
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C.S. FRIEDMAN Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”
If there was an award for understatement, I th...
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MILTON FRIEDMAN Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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MILTON FRIEDMAN What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a respon...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
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MILTON FRIEDMAN The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're getting really close to obtaining the support we need.
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MILTON FRIEDMAN Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with
mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, an...
ADENA FRIEDMAN I didn't see your backbone. I felt like you were sleeping though the lyrical dance.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN It allows your car to run on straight vegetable oil just the same way you would on diesel, with very...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it ...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN To be honest, I never wanted to live in L.A.. I like this area, but L.A.'s a pit, sorry. I'm from Sa...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN They were getting progressively violent.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN Your fox trot is the smoothest I've seen yet.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN It's not a hippie experiment anymore, ... It actually works and it works really well.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the wo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN