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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
AARON LEVENSTEIN Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like ...
GERRY COONEY Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.
MIKE GALLAGHER Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
AARON LEVENSTEIN

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are subst...
DENNIS PRAGER

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there h...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
BUTCH TRUCKS

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS

I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do a...
ASHTON KUTCHER I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interest...
MARVIN HARRIS I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certai...
EDDIE HUANG

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion v...
RALPH LAUREN I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the...
JUDY COLLINS

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these ch...
PATRICK MARBER I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes...
RALPH LAUREN

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE

I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'...
SIA I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like act...
BRYAN FULLER Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the...
MICHAEL REAGAN

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good ...
JOAN DIDION My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like,...
SEAMUS DEVER

I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think ...
MAGGIE Q Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like ...
ABBI JACOBSON

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced...
JOHN CAUDWELL

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a...
DONALD JUDD

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com...
BARBARA BUSH I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I le...
ABBEY CLANCY I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. ...
LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previou...
RACHEL MADDOW I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they'...
GORE VERBINSKI

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pic...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
PRINCE PHILIP

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know w...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like...
ELLEN POMPEO I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know eac...
CAREY MULLIGAN I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of ...
MIKE NEWELL

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
MARCO RUBIO I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?
ROBIN THICKE I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the...
TAIO CRUZ

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't l...
DONALD TRUMP Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
JACK L. WARNER

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie...
JACKIE CHAN

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like...
MARTHA STEWART

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language bette...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.
DONALD TRUMP The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they lik...
JOE GREENE I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the k...
PAUL GIAMATTI I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they f...
DAVID HASSELHOFF

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d...
SHIRLEY MANSON

There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don...
AARON SPELLING What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen...
JOHN DE MOL, JR.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make the...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. ...
MARIE HELVIN I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.
ELIZA DOOLITTLE

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don'...
BARBARA HERSHEY

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like ...
GARY ALLAN When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't wan...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a...
CHUCK TODD

I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up.
JIMMY FALLON

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like a...
JOHN CLEESE The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
PETER MANDELSON I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
EARLY WYNN I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
CARICE VAN HOUTEN

People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Someho...
JAMES PATTERSON

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
SANDRA BERNHARD

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm mo...
MARY-LOUISE PARKER What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is...
BRIAN POSEHN

My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a ...
JAMES WOODS I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. ...
JAMES LIPTON I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't li...
ALAIN PROST

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

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I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

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