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• I remember Tallulah (Bankhead) telling of going into a public ladies' room and discovering there was no toilet tissue. She looked underneath the booth and said to the lady in the next stall, 'I beg your pardon, do you happen to have any toilet tissue in there?' The lady said no. So Tallulah said, 'Well, then, dahling, do you have two fives for a ten?'

  Ethel Merman

  Two, Next, Tissues

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• I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Thinking, Trying, Would Be

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• There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Littles, Conscience

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1966). “Swans on an Autumn River: Stories”

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• Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mean, Doctors, Eight

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• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Home, House

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• Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

  Lewis Black

  Stupid, Differences, Dumb

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• I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

  Roger Sherman

  Father, Believe, Son

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• When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?

  Quentin Crisp

  Plato, Boys, Names

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• I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

  Thom Yorke

  Kids, Listening, Cracks

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• I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Mirrors, Looks, Able

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• Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

  Sidney Lumet

  Cutting, Destruction, Length

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Cat, May

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• We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

  George H. W. Bush

  Racism, Police, Citizens

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• The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our minds or our hearts for self-pity, self-loathing or unhappiness with the world in which we live.

  David S. Baxter

  Heart, Helping Others, Self

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• Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

  Obert C. Tanner

  Attitude, Earth, Pay

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• Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

  Andrew Tan

  Opportunity, Certain, Grows

  "The making of a tycoon". Interview with Manila Bulletin, ph.news.yahoo.com. October 20, 2013.

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• Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

  Bob Newhart

  Pigs, Television, Bulls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are not going back. We are not returning to the days of back-room abortions, when countless women died or were maimed. The decision about abortion must remain a decision for the woman, her family and a physician to make, not the government.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government, Abortion, Decision

  "United Against the War on Women" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Real, People, Trying

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

  Sid Waddell

  Exercise, Ideas, Cliffs

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• I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

  Lynda Carter

  Dust, People, Drunk

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• I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

  Muriel Spark

  Writing, Cat, Serenity

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