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Thurgood Marshall

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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I sa...
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"I know it," he said.
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IRV KUPCINET If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead
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IRV KUPCINET You're Nephilim," he said. "The Clave owes us protection in these circumstances."
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TIFFANY GARLAND Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.
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MARGARET ATWOOD PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
ARTHUR MILLER If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
JEFF RICH When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY I think Kelly has a little something about him, ... If I said to him, 'Go out and try a 55-yarder,' ...
JOE PATERNO I think Kelly has a little something about him. If I said to him, 'Go out and try a 55-yarder,' he w...
JOE PATERNO a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got...
WILLIAM FAULKNER He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone li...
RICHARD GARNETT Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no ...
MARK TWAIN That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of e...
RICK SAY They looked at the videotape because of Kali, but I guess they liked the other boys. Same thing happ...
WENDELL SAY Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or somethin...
NEIL GAIMAN You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM I've got to say, I enjoy a good suit. Something about a really well-tailored suit; I like it.
REID SCOTT Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead."
"No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead."
"Have ...
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ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Is it okay to hate a dead kid? Even if you loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay...
A.S. KING I shall have more to say when I am dead.
EDWIN A. ROBINSON i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD What can you say. That dead ball foul. They came back and got a 3 out of it. It was huge.
GARY HUDSON People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
ROBIN WILLIAMS Tintin! Are you dead? Say yes or no but answer me!
JENNIFER ZIEMBA When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of childre...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me
ALICE LONGWORTH If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH You said something I didn't say. Now shove it.
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WRITER GRADED I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.
VIGGO MORTENSEN Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to m...
TIA ARTEMIS If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurr...
BIBLE How long have you been with Raphael?”
“You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman.”
NALINI SINGH True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
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DAMIEN HIRST I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?
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DANIEL BALDWIN He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
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RANDY MOSS You guys left him for dead, said he was all washed up. Somebody was wrong.
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MARSHALL MCLUHAN When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and di...
PETER MARSHALL Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine tha...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attrac...
MARSHALL CURRY The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a l...
JOHN MARSHALL The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ...
BURKE MARSHALL Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate i...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological ...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by t...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information,...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Art is anything you can get away with.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespear...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
BARRY MARSHALL This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and...
PETER MARSHALL The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
JOHN MARSHALL