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MARGARET MITCHELL
What an event like this in any community accomplishes is bringing people together for goodness,'' sa...
CARON BUTLER
Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL
we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We would like to engage the community in this effort. We want to make this a community project, not ...
GAYLE HELGOE
Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL
There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES
its not whats in the outside that Matters its whats in the inside that Counts.
NADIRA AHMED
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS
The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed ...
JEFF AGOOS
If they want to do recycling, do it somewhere else, do it where there's no community. We don't want ...
LILY CABINATAN
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
BRADLEY WHITFORD
We want to be part of the community, we want to live with the Rwandan community to bring the people ...
LES PARR
We'd like to make real trails that least impact the property. We want the community to use it, too.
BRIAN SUTER
We want to emphasize community. We want to be self-sufficient and that means the community, and not ...
JACQUIE SMALL
Product solutions are evolving faster, which makes it tougher for the consumer. We want to act as th...
BOB WILLETT
We heard everybody dances, and we wanted to have dances too. We want to tell the whole community tha...
MANJIT SINGH
We do eight episodes in nine days. Now, because there are roughly 40 actors in the show, it doesn't ...
RAY BROOKS
We want to build a sense of community while the community is being built.
JANICE JENSEN
...
You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...

- ...
DEYTH BANGER
We want to help out the campus community.
MIGUEL DREW
There will be something for everybody, ... We want the community to see that the church can throw a ...
LUIS PALAU
We want to make sure we stay in the community.
JEFF MARTIN
Speaking for both organizations, we want to thank the community for stepping up in a time of need li...
CHAD CONRAD
There were other pioneers besides the cowboys and their families, and we want to preserve the histor...
ALECYA GALLAWAY
We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benef...
BUD MORRIS
We want Dislocate to be a presence in the community. The Twin Cities has an incredible writing commu...
JENNIFER JOHNSON
We want them to be productive in the community,
ALAN AUTRY
We want to have more discussions with the community.
GREG RIEGLE
Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,
Bob,...
JAROD KINTZ
The kids who have weapons in the community - we want to have an appropriate response. We want them t...
FRITZ REESE
We want our houses to look like a community, not like a low-income housing project. Many people don'...
BECKY SELLE
We're putting the community on notice. We want the regulated community to understand that we are ser...
ANDREA MORROW
Maybe there are no right moments, right guys, right answers...maybe you just have to say whats in yo...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. W...
SCOTT REED
Bob is a true role model. He lives his life in such a way that we should all teach our children to b...
BECKY PAPE
We're now at the point where we want to build a large community of like-minded fans on our official ...
JASON TURNER
We also want to hear from anyone interested in performing, like Hawaiian dancers or native American ...
GWEN CALHOUN
We're very pleased the community didn't let us down and we didn't want to let the community down.
JEFF BENJAMIN
There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to ...
DAVID STEWART
But sharing is not going to get any easier if there is more theater. We do want community theater. W...
CLAIRE KILEY
We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant commu...
CARMEN GARCIA
We have Tar Heel Nation in Butler County, Missouri.
GENE HANSBROUGH
Every event we had, people would come up and ask us about how or where to recycle at Butler. People ...
JENNA FROSCH
The timing had to be just right to bring a name like Bob Dylan on the network. You have to have a cr...
ERIC LOGAN
General aviation is growing. They're starting to move away from big hubs. There will be changes in a...
GENE CISEWSKI
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
The community has been really supportive of the whole project, so we want to give back to the commun...
KAREN SARGEANT
We really want to become an active part of the community.
ALAN RAMSEY
We want to connect the community and connect people through art.
BRANDON REINTJES
We want to be a real positive force in the community.
LAWRENCE SMITH
We also want to find out what the community wants here.
LINDA LEWIS
We want our community to maintain its quality, ... Manufactured homes devalue property. We wanted to...
DICK MILLER
We really just want to give the community something special to do.
JENNIFER MOXLEY
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Harry and the Butler
ANTHONY HOPKINS
The coach and GM of the Crusaders junior hockey club came by. If people from the area wanted to come...
BRIAN HALL
If they want to do things for the community, we'll be right there with them.
JEFF WILPON
I hope the community will see that there are an array of opportunities to help us here, ... I want t...
KAREN HAYNES
Women have whats called the "friendzone" men have whats called "how do I get out of the friendzone" ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT
We were losing residents to Butler and Clermont counties because we didn't have any new homes,
DAVID MOORE
We don't want to be spectators. We don't want to be working the desk and stuff like that. We want to...
DAVE MULDAWER
What you guys want, I'm for.
DAN QUAYLE
We want to just tell the community what stage we are in this process.
CHARLES COGGINS
From Caron Butler - and there's no validation this automatically has to happen - to Ben Gordon, it l...
JIM CALHOUN
We really want to expand as an RSO and help the community.
DAKOTA PAWLICKI
We'd like to get that on the first-floor level. We want to try to make things as accessible as we ca...
DAVID REINHOLTZ
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. FIELDS
We want the message to get out to the immigrant community -- specifically the unlawful immigrant com...
WAYNE WILLS
I'd like to utilize my experience ... and help the community grow in the manner they want to grow.
ARLEN SANDERS
Whats past is proloque, merely a way to a settled soul
GRAHAM PETERSON
So the butler is safe?
DANNY SULLIVAN
We want to make it look like we weren't even there.
MICHAEL CONNORS
It looks like we reached the community we wanted to reach.
LUIS RIVERA
We are a partner in this. We want it to go well for the community.
DAN GARDNER
There are racial tensions in our community just like any other northern industrial community.
JOE CALABRESE
As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in ...
JIM CARTER
We expect to support other events in our school and in our community, ... We want our cadets to be i...
DENNIS HALL
I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS
We believe this will be a community facility for many decades to come. We want to make sure we repre...
KATHLEEN MURPHY
Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
If we want the bustling little community here, and we want the Manatee Pocket to be a hub for the re...
ARTHUR COX
If the opposite of bad is good, whats the opposite of evil
LIL TREYCO
When it's in their community they really take ownership of it and that's what we want. The South Tam...
HEATHER WINBERRY
Do you ever get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anyone anymore? You just want to be lef...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
I don't whats better gettin laid or gettin paid.
KANYE WEST
Charlie and Bob give us valuable veteran leadership in the backcourt, ... We can rely on them to off...
CARROLL DAWSON
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chair...
PATRICK VOGT
[Telluride's programming often goes down to the wire, and additional titles could materialize. There...
GREIL MARCUS
I think that a successful project like this will help revitalize the community. And the community ha...
JUDY RENO
I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of mu...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.
Our position is that we want to protect community services, and there's no need to privatize or make...
ALBERT CARLSON
Even if we had somebody hand-picked who we wanted to replace Bob Ney, we couldn't do it anyway. But ...
JOHN MCCLELLAND
In the big picture, there was nobody better than Bob Gibson,
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER
A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER
Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
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Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
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I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
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Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
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I'm not big on the closet.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I'm an actor.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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For every why he had a wherefore.
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Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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SAMUEL BUTLER
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER
To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER
We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER