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• It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Assessment, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Important, Needs

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• I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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• Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

  Ben Marcus

  Technology, Mouths, Safe

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.55, Vintage

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• I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Arbitrary, Use

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.660, Univ of California Press

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• As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

  Mark Twain

  Respect, Book, Character

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3759, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

  Lev Grossman

  Hatred, Humanity, Mind

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Gun, People, Blame

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• Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

  Tori Spelling

  Mirrors, Littles, Six

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• As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

  Peter Wright

  Romantic, Kids, Math

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• I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

  Tori Spelling

  Nice, Thinking, Looks

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• There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

  David Mitchell

  Links, Bigotry

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• Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

  Casper Van Dien

  Actors, Shows, Hard

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• The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

  Branford Marsalis

  Piano, People, Tough Times

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• Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

  Richard Masur

  New York, Practice, Riding

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• I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

  Gregory Harrison

  July, Years, Heaven

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• I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

  Joss Whedon

  Hate, Believe, People

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• I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention--it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Worry, Different

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

  Shelley Hennig

  School, Obsession, Memorizing

  "When I Was 17: Shelley Hennig". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

  Brian Regan

  Growing Up, Bees, Idiot

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• Linus Van Pelt: Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?
  Charlie Brown: What's that?
  Linus Van Pelt: The world didn't come to an end.

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, How You Feel, Down And

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• No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

  Mike Nichols

  Beer, Agreement, Skills

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• I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

  Emma Stone

  Kids, Bees, Grammar

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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