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At a party, a woman walked up to Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, and said, "My...
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He [Calvin Coolidge] looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
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HENRY BROWN
I think he'll go as long as he wants.
PHIL GARNER
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CLARENCE DARROW
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROW
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont
CLARENCE DARROW
I think it was ill-timed, I think it was ill-conceived and I think it was a matter of poor judgment,
CHANNEL FOUR
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SCOTT RIGELL
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BILLY TAUZIN
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
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I think life is a chain of events.
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No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no suc...
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I think Calvin is a great guy. He is honest and a straight shooter.
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No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no...
ALAN BATES
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
BILL GRIFFITH
He doesn't believe that occupying Iraq is a winning strategy for American troops. He wants the presi...
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
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ARSENE WENGER
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM
I think I have a huge ass! I think I could hide a flashlight there and it wouldn't be found for mont...
YASMEEN GHAURI
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessa...
FREDERICK POLLOCK
I think we (Calvin and I) were looking for each other, but I think it's just because we know the gam...
CORY MAGEE
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story...
CHESTER HIMES
I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms...
JANET RENO
I think you’re confused as to the nature of our relationship. You and I, we don’t get along. You...
ILONA ANDREWS
I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
ERIN MORAN
I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interne...
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If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you...
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The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:

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Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
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The Commerce Committee is headed in the opposite direction of where the American public wants to go.
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I think it was a mistake not to be informing the American public of certain basic facts and to reite...
KENNETH STARR
I think North Idaho and Salt Lake will be the teams to beat, along with ourselves. So we'll get a lo...
BEN STROUD
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

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I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a ...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
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The Senate president supports the bill. I think it's going to go.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I think when we sit down with the president, he's going to have some things he wants, we're going to...
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Certainly this is a public affairs school, and he's a former president, but I think he really excite...
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I think 'American Pie' is great.
PAUL DANO
I think Americans are very patriotic.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
I think Americans have big hearts.
GENE SPERLING
How could they tell? (upon hearing that President Coolidge had died)
DOROTHY PARKER
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
JIMMY CARTER
I don't think the public wants a system that's more weighted to defending murderers, rapists, and ch...
DANIEL CONLEY
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit an...
BILL WATTERSON
I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass.
RACHEL COHN
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I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
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I don't think it's a secret. I don't think the president is comfortable traveling.
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Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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It's a very ill-conceived lawsuit. I think the judge obviously sees that.
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I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredib...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes th...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you pai...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for th...
RITA COOLIDGE
Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-lo...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that....
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll nev...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
RITA COOLIDGE
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people...
RITA COOLIDGE
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
RITA COOLIDGE
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It&#...
RITA COOLIDGE
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
RITA COOLIDGE
There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached ...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I'm not a prude.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, w...
RITA COOLIDGE
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
RITA COOLIDGE
I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails....
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I hate Spanx.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I have been able to sniff out a phony.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me ...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I think we still need to see more before I'm convinced we turned the corner. This earnings season wa...
PETER COOLIDGE
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
CALVIN KLEIN
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
JOHN CALVIN
I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS