Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen.
Budd Schulberg
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JOSHUA BORKLUND He told us it'd be a great opportunity for us. And it turned out it was.
CALVIN JOHNSON They told us to lay down and said, 'If you're going to move, you're going to die.' They were speakin...
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RAJON RONDO He thought it was kind of a noble thing, and we prayed about it. He knows that God is going to take ...
LAURA BAGSBY They have told us that they really don't care if they invest a lot in one quarter and don't make our...
JANE SNOREK Coach just told us that we were the best basketball team to come through Woodinville, girls or boys....
AMANDA FLEISCHMAN He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisic...
BRIAN ALEXANDER Coach was not happy with us. He told us we just need to flush this (game) down the toilet and forget...
MEL THOMAS Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly...
SIMON NEWCOMB He motivated us. He told us we were going to be good this year. He told us to forget the past, and t...
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DERREK LEE I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
WERNER HERZOG Fuck everyone's apologies. I'm sick of hearing them. No one is sorry about anything. None of us care...
JASON MYERS He told us at half-time he hadn't wanted to come up here and scream at us. He sort of did.
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JONAH GOLDBERG Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINI The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
ALBERT CAMUS The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
NORMAN MAILER The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety
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ADAM MUELLER He just told us to keep going to class, Yeah.
ANDRE ALLEN There is no one that's going to help us but us.
JAMES HARDY It'd make things a lot easier if he told us who he was. You do have to tell us who you are.
CAPT. DAVE WULFF He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White Hou...
RALPH ABERNATHY We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
JOEL ROSENBERG The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century Americ...
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AL GOODEN It means to me like home. There are a lot of people who care about us like Ryan and Tracy. They prot...
CHRIS GARCIA It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY Feast of Mark the Evangelist There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about t...
E. L. MASCALL No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN It was shocking to us. He was here for one year, and then all of a sudden he took off. A lot of us h...
JACOB BURTSCHI A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. ...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM He stood up and told us if we didn't take the boot off he was going to kill us.
JASON MATHEWS The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. DU BOIS If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be define...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF We're goof balls. We don't really care a whole lot about what's going on around us, as long as we're...
CHELSEA DAVIS It's going to be tough. I told our defense to hold it down for us.
LEON WASHINGTON ...crackers..." a voice breathed out nehind us, "yesss..."
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DORA SCHRIRO We have heard a lot of rumors, but no one has told us anything. I only know what people are saying, ...
MARIA MARTINEZ Whatever they come at us with, we're going to take care of it.
JASON MURPHY He told us he drove around aimlessly for a while before finally going to Mount Lemmon.
DENNIS QUESENBERRY I already know we're going to see a lot of the same stuff, and he might say the same about us. It's ...
BECKIE FRANCIS A lot of us were really surprised one day when we went to work and they turned us back home. It was ...
FRANK VALENZUELA The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has t...
QUENTIN CRISP Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater pe...
CONDOLA RASHAD One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.
JACK THE RIPPER Coach basically told us to play it one game at a time.
JARRETT SPARKS The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Everything had just turned around. He brought a system here that was going to help us succeed.
CHAD JOHNSON They have not told us it's postponed. There is no sense of delay at all.
BERT BRANTLEY I told the players that the only people who expect us to win is us. We were down by six at half, but...
JOE CONROY He (Schinella) gives us that extra dimension with his quickness, ... That (return) really turned thi...
JEFF OLSON He told us it comes down to who has more motivation and drive to win.
ASH EDMONDS We don't have to talk about it. Our auntie was like another mom to us. Every time she came down, she...
ENOKA LUCAS Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
JILL LEPORE He yelled at us a little bit. He told us if we wanted to win the game, we had to be more aggressive.
JENNY JONES It's not one of nine that does anything for a team; it's nine of nine. One of us alone is not going ...
KAREN CURRAN It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the...
JERRY SALTZ We have had a lot of offers from record companies to go into the studio, but they wanted us to cross...
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KELLY O'CONNELL With our trading partners slowing down, they're not going to demand a lot of exports from us.
ASHRAF LAIDI Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.
JOE PANTOLIANO Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a y...
NAZIM HIKMET At halftime Mo did a good job. A lot of guys felt like we battled pretty good. At halftime we came i...
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VICTOR HUGO Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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ANDY PETTITTE They were able to shut us down in a lot of situations. They really slowed us down.
CHAD DEPAOLI I am absolutely over the moon and hope it gives the supporters a real boost. He is a smashing kid. H...
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CARYL RIVERS The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scal...
RON SILVER The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberat...
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GORDON BROWN The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEIN He is kind of an unknown. I don't think a lot of people know about us.
ANDY KERLEY You can't eat your friends and have them too.
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