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"I didn't know what the guy said, but I saw his sole." - George W. Bush, speaking with the press pool about the the now-legendary shoe-throwing incident
"I’m not going to leave you and I’m not going to cheat. That is the way I am. And there will come a point where our relationship will become a distant thing, but I will come back."
"All you can eat means all you can eat FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! We’re going to go get us some banana pudding, mother fuckers!" - Stephen Colbert and Sweetness (his gun) on All You Can Eat Buffets
"That is so bad it's kind of unintentionally awesome, like Nicolas Cage's Wicker Man performance. Lyrics aside, the song actually rocks harder than I've heard Nickelback rock before. Kroeger's goat bleat is buried in the mix, and you might almost be able to mistake this for a shitty Metallica track. Like if Lars was mangled in a thresher accident and Hetfield had throat cancer, priapism and a brian injury. This is the highest compliment I could possibly give Nickelback. - jess_d_ripper on Nickelback's song 'Next Go Round'
"As much as you believe in yourself, you need to have someone else believe in you too."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." - The History Boys
"Compositionally, Bird takes simple melodies and gradually extends them into complex arrangements. These melodies pop into his head unannounced. The way it usually works, he will suddenly find himself whistling a new one - Bird is constantly whistling - or even chewing his food to it. He never records melodies or even writes them down. He assumes that if they’re worth remembering, he’ll remember them. The longer they remain lodged in his head, the more likely it is that they will eventually be fashioned into a song. 'It’s like I’m my own Top 40 radio station, playing the things that get under my skin,' Bird says. 'The ones that really stick are the hits.'" - Andrew Bird as profiled by NYTimes.com
"These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius." - Michael Cunningham, The Hours
"Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it’s in a shot glass." - Coyote Ugly
"People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation." - Chuck Klosterman
"Your destiny is not tied to the people who walked away." - Joel Osteen
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn
"This is my passion, you know? This is the essence of who I am now. But before I had this, I was lost, too. You see what I'm saying? You need to find your reason for living. You've got to find your big, gigantic drum kit." - Nick, Freaks & Geeks
"Promise you won’t forget about me, ever.Not even when I’m a hundred." - Winnie The Pooh
"And comedians hate magicians. I know you may not know this but we cannot stand magicians because they practice and practice and practice and then they pretend that it's magic. That gets on my tits in a huge way. Right? 'Oh, no, where's the card gone? It's *magic*' No, you were lonely as a teenager and you practiced for hours. That's where the fucking card has gone, all right? Concert pianists also practice for hours but they don't go out on stage and go, 'Jesus! Where is the music coming from? This is incredible. It's like it's flowing out of my hands, it's amazing.'" - Dara O'Brian
"I was born in Winnipeg. Snowy, sleepwalking Winnipeg, at the heart of the heart of the continent. I feel as if people know this they will become suddenly indulgent of me. 'Ah yes, well, she is from Winnipeg....'" - my friend Jesslyn
"But these are the kind of negotiations you have to deal with as President. In just the first few weeks, I’ve had to engage in some of the toughest diplomacy of my life. And that was just to keep my Blackberry. I finally agreed to limit the number of people who could email me. It’s a very exclusive list. How exclusive? Everyone look at the person sitting on your left. Now look at the person sitting on your right. None of you have my email address." - President Obama
"I’m not going to leave you and I’m not going to cheat. That is the way I am. And there will come a point where our relationship will become a distant thing, but I will come back."
"All you can eat means all you can eat FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! We’re going to go get us some banana pudding, mother fuckers!" - Stephen Colbert and Sweetness (his gun) on All You Can Eat Buffets
"That is so bad it's kind of unintentionally awesome, like Nicolas Cage's Wicker Man performance. Lyrics aside, the song actually rocks harder than I've heard Nickelback rock before. Kroeger's goat bleat is buried in the mix, and you might almost be able to mistake this for a shitty Metallica track. Like if Lars was mangled in a thresher accident and Hetfield had throat cancer, priapism and a brian injury. This is the highest compliment I could possibly give Nickelback. - jess_d_ripper on Nickelback's song 'Next Go Round'
"As much as you believe in yourself, you need to have someone else believe in you too."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." - The History Boys
"Compositionally, Bird takes simple melodies and gradually extends them into complex arrangements. These melodies pop into his head unannounced. The way it usually works, he will suddenly find himself whistling a new one - Bird is constantly whistling - or even chewing his food to it. He never records melodies or even writes them down. He assumes that if they’re worth remembering, he’ll remember them. The longer they remain lodged in his head, the more likely it is that they will eventually be fashioned into a song. 'It’s like I’m my own Top 40 radio station, playing the things that get under my skin,' Bird says. 'The ones that really stick are the hits.'" - Andrew Bird as profiled by NYTimes.com
"These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius." - Michael Cunningham, The Hours
"Jim, Jack, Johnny Red, Johnny Black, and Jose; all my favorite men. You can have it any way you like it, as long as it’s in a shot glass." - Coyote Ugly
"People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation." - Chuck Klosterman
"Your destiny is not tied to the people who walked away." - Joel Osteen
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." - Audrey Hepburn
"This is my passion, you know? This is the essence of who I am now. But before I had this, I was lost, too. You see what I'm saying? You need to find your reason for living. You've got to find your big, gigantic drum kit." - Nick, Freaks & Geeks
"Promise you won’t forget about me, ever.Not even when I’m a hundred." - Winnie The Pooh
"And comedians hate magicians. I know you may not know this but we cannot stand magicians because they practice and practice and practice and then they pretend that it's magic. That gets on my tits in a huge way. Right? 'Oh, no, where's the card gone? It's *magic*' No, you were lonely as a teenager and you practiced for hours. That's where the fucking card has gone, all right? Concert pianists also practice for hours but they don't go out on stage and go, 'Jesus! Where is the music coming from? This is incredible. It's like it's flowing out of my hands, it's amazing.'" - Dara O'Brian
"I was born in Winnipeg. Snowy, sleepwalking Winnipeg, at the heart of the heart of the continent. I feel as if people know this they will become suddenly indulgent of me. 'Ah yes, well, she is from Winnipeg....'" - my friend Jesslyn
"But these are the kind of negotiations you have to deal with as President. In just the first few weeks, I’ve had to engage in some of the toughest diplomacy of my life. And that was just to keep my Blackberry. I finally agreed to limit the number of people who could email me. It’s a very exclusive list. How exclusive? Everyone look at the person sitting on your left. Now look at the person sitting on your right. None of you have my email address." - President Obama