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• I am better at math than spelling.

  Spike Jonze

  Math

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• When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

  Joe Manganiello

  Drama, School, Names

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• I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.

  Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras

  Life, Death, Mistake

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• My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

  Mark Twain

  German Language, Years, Down And

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.378, Xist Publishing

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• The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

  Adam Langer

  What Matters, Stories, Overrated

  Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media

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• You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

  Lynda Barry

  Writing, Names, Missing

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• Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Book, School

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• And you're a bad boy?" I asked. Ollie's grin was contagious. "Oh, I'm a bad, bad boy." Cam shot his friend a look. "Yeah, as in bad at spelling, math, english, cleaning up after yourself, talking to people, and I could go on.

  J. Lynn

  Math, Boys, Talking

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• In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hate, Comedy, Insult

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Baal worship -- was practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan fertility god and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility cult religion. At any rate, this mockery of Jesus is a satanic symbol and figures prominently in Satan worship.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Jesus, Egypt, Cities

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• We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Names, Eight, Vermont

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• Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Cynicism, Cynic

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• Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Light, Depth

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Mean, Stories

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• I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

  Brenda Lee

  Reading, Champion, Firsts

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• I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

  Tina Fey

  Basketball, Baby, Champion

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Often Is, Likes And Dislikes

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

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• I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Letters, Originality

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