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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Saying Quotes

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the ’80s and ’90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.

– Jahangir Khan

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it’s a false statistic. There’s nobody that is wealthy saying, let’s go get the people that aren’t. First of all, there’s no versus. He’s creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

– Jon Lovitz

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, ‘You should give it a go in London.’

– James Bay

I’ve been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

– J. A. Konrath

I’m saying that there’s way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

– Jesse Ventura

Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There’s no point in saying you’ve got the establishment wrong because they hadn’t got the establishment wrong, they’d got it absolutely dead on.

– John Hurt

When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as ‘Catch-22’ I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?’

– Joseph Heller

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

– Isabella Rossellini

No I’m not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don’t think we actually get anywhere on that.

– Iain Duncan Smith

I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 – that’s gross and obnoxious, but in California it’s looked on as an asset.

– Anna Kendrick

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it’s gonna get worse.

– Butch Trucks

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, ‘Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?’ I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

– Jhumpa Lahiri

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I’m not good at saying ‘No’. But the juggling’s fun.

– Joel Edgerton

I’m not scared about saying what I think.

– Concha Buika

I used to get a lot of people saying ‘Oh, you are such a lucky granny.’ But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

– Jo Brand

I keep saying I won’t go back to television, but I do.

– Bonnie Hunt

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

– Barry Marshall

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some… and then there’s that little-known third category.

– Al Gore

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

– John Cage

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

– John Lennon

I didn’t do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I’m not saying that was the only reason I didn’t do well with them, but I just didn’t.

– Jamie Dornan

I’m loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

– Carmen Dell’Orefice

There is a famous saying: ‘It’s hard to be a Jew.’ It’s also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.

– Ariel Sharon

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

– Bernard Manning

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

– Alex Steffen

I always thought, ‘I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don’t do that.’ But of course, it wasn’t really up to me.

– Ariel Pink

Let us stop saying ‘white Americans’ and ‘colored Americans,’ let us try once and for all saying… Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

– Josephine Baker

I’ve had a Ph.D. in saying dumb things over the years.

– Alex Rodriguez

It’s ludicrous that my friends in California aren’t able to legally get married. It’s a civil rights issue. In 20 years we’re going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it’s going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the ’50s.

– Busy Philipps

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour – people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them – but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

– Adrian Edmondson

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