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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.


Sam Sheppard

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ALBERT SPEER We don't want to give the authorities any excuse for violence.
ISA GAMBAR I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because the...
SALMON P. CHASE He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.
KATHERINE COLLINS The goals have been defined. Neither I nor the concern can give any detailed information.
BERND PISCHETSRIEDER When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
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LT. NANCY GILLON I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o...
JOANNA LUMLEY I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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WARREN HERNAND I like them both. I've never had any bad barbecue. I love barbecue.
BOB MCCONNELL To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I wo...
M. AGEYEV I didn't get any DVDs and I'd love to have them to sign and give out.
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ANN HOOD Obama has refused to equip, or to arm, any rebel groups fighting Assad or his forces.
TERRY GLAVIN I don't have permission from the guests to release any information.
BILL WARREN Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
NORM MACDONALD You have to credit my teammates. Without them I wouldn't have had any assists.
DANIEL ANAYA We are appealing to the public to give the family any information they may have on my son.
JANE JOHNSON I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections ...
SALMA HAYEK I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.
CIARA And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS We haven't had any discussions with the company. It's a little premature for us to make any comments...
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AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand...
TAMARA IRELAND STONE I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
MARK TWAIN I am not a time waster… I don't have any time to lose.
DEYTH BANGER I felt the US authorities have shown greater interest than any other political figures from Taiwan.
JASON YUAN I recognise that any sentence I impose will not bring Triston back or give any real consolation to h...
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CHARLES PASQUA I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any gh...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
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RAJNEESH I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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KATHARINE LIELL I just wish that somebody would just sanely sit down and talk, because who wants to fight? Animosity...
JOYCE HALL I don't have any more information for you on that.
JAMES JEFFREY I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any e...
CASEY WASSERMAN I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to...
KEN FOLLETT I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.
BHAGAT SINGH No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!
BRIAN CLOUGH I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I have the ability and to have access to and to learn more in different areas in wellness and health...
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GEORGETTE HEYER In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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DALE WILLIAMS The state refused to offer any plea in this case and obviously they should have.
DAN COOPER I said I had not. They did not give me any details.
IAN HUNTLEY Play by the rules, ... Don't give them any reason to take it [a better rate] away or penalize you in...
ROBERT MCKINLEY We have options. It wouldn't do any good to discuss them before I talk to Bill. That would be puttin...
MIKE HARGROVE We've had no information at all. It's very frustrating and we're very eager for anyone who has any i...
KATIE CARROLL I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
DINAH SHORE The flow of information is getting steadily freer, in fact. If I was in the State Council's informat...
XIAO QIANG I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marri...
SNOOP DOGG I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabi...
MADI DIAZ To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and un...
STEVE BRUCE I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I n...
YUSUF ISLAM I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't devel...
DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to...
BENIGNO AQUINO III I have never been able to come up with any clear indicators. There is no mechanical means to identif...
PAUL CHERNEY If there is any significant change or development to be communicated to media, the hospital authorit...
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GIL DE FERRAN Defensively, we've just got to stop them, eventually we have to stop them. We didn't even have a tak...
JASON SIMPSON I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information i...
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LEO SANDON I never had any reason to doubt his guilt. The evidence was overwhelming.
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JAMES HANSEN I just want to know what happened, and I can't get any information.
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SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON