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• Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

  Sargent Shriver

  Enthusiasm, Being Accused

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• Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

  Robert Stack

  Being Sad, Promise, Als

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• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Clare Short

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  People, Interviews, Offense

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

  Brian Williams

  People, Giving, Want

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Building, Accusation

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June, 1935.

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• Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

  Jacques Verges

  Thinking, People, Office

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• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  Dan Quayle

  Way, Vote, Republican

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• For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Gambling, Sin

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.76

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• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Lionel Trilling

  Neurosis, Judgment, Ends

  "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

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• When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

  Elizabeth Banks

  College, Shoes, Two

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Confusion, Matter, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• I never did any of things I was accused of. It was a total fabrication.

  Kurt Busch

  Fabrication

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• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, Atheism

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• I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.

  Grace Kelly

  Opposites, Feelings, Want

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• For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

  Fritz Todt

  Engineering, Mind, Landscape

  "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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• Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

  David Letterman

  Hair, Aliens, Illegal

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• I should be able to express moral views on social issues without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Squares, Views

  "Kirk Cameron Says He Is a Victim of 'Hate Speech' and 'Slander' After He Calls Homosexuality 'Unnatural, Detrimental and Destructive' on National TV". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 07, 2012.

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• We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

  Bobby Sands

  Lying, Criminals, Crime

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• I've been accused of darkness
  by my inner light.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Light, Darkness, Inner Light

  Alison Deming (2016). “Stairway to Heaven: Poems”, p.10, Penguin

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

  Man Ray

  Art, Successful, Has Beens

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers, Camera Magazine, 1981.

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• Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material.

  David Letterman

  Guy, Presidential, Today

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• A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Greed, Meals

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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