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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.


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KENNY WORMALD Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first pass...
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ELIZA VICTORIA I woke up this morning and I wasn't dead. It's going to be a great day!
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JENNIFER LOPEZ Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
MIKE NICHOLS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for someth...
NANCY LUBLIN My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if ther...
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IRINA SHAYK I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. M...
KATE ATKINSON Here I am, in a lovely hotel room, with my own bathroom. I have never experienced such incredible lu...
ELLEN EMERSON WHITE I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.
RUSH LIMBAUGH Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to Englan...
ALAN BRADLEY I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gi...
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER In 1968, I was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a Shelby Cobra with three gorgeous young...
GINGER BAKER No roommate. I had my own hotel room.
MATT CAPPS If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my ent...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room. I woke him up,...
LUIS MANDOKI I would rather have the room empty. I have absolutely zero tolerance for drugs in this hotel.
ANDREW SCHROEPFER He didn't do anything. He would spend time in the hotel room.
JACQUELINE COLAITIS If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, th...
RICHARD PRESTON From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper ...
ALICE COOPER If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
AUSTIN KLEON If time were to be a person,he would be the most patient person ever created.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ben is so young, and he has so much to learn. Matt has arrived. But for the future, I would rather h...
WARREN MOON I woke up and saw the sky so gray call it good mourning.
ANDONI GARCIA I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. ...
KYLE SCHMID In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZEL A 100-room hotel with little meeting space and limited food service would resemble a motel, and not ...
BARRY NEWMAN From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper ...
ALICE COOPER Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and ...
CAROLYN MAUPIN Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an excepti...
LEMONY SNICKET A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF My father, when I was very young, used to say to me, 'If you are ever in an emergency, if you are ev...
RUDI GIULIANI I got beat by Matt Moley in my first regional match.
JAKE BUCHA We have a good relationship. I mean, he's my dad's boss. If I ever needed anything, I would definite...
BRYAN MATTISON I had a dream. I dreamed I was on this island, and there were two hotels, and one hotel was filled w...
FRANK DILLANE Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasie...
GOOD WILL HUNTING He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.
TODD CHRISTENSEN I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the...
MUHAMMAD ALI People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL It would appear that General Hooker has placed his hindquarters where his headquarters should be." (...
ROBERT E. LEE If you're a developer, the first criterion is that a hotel must be justified on that spot. If a hote...
PATRICK FORD Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual...
BRUCE WILLIS Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual...
BRUCE WILLIS Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I wanted the person with the Southern accent to be the smartest person in the room.
JAMES DUFF In Rome, Matt had told her, ‘I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.’ That wa...
MICHELLE DE KRETSER I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed ...
KIM HARRISON I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Financ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip j...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call....
ALICE COOPER My mama told me If you're the smartest person in the room then you're in the wrong room.
MOOSA RAHAT You could say I have quite a nice-guy image as an actor and I wanted to do something new, something ...
BILL PAXTON Sean: My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasie...
GOOD WILL HUNTING I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
WOODY ALLEN If i was to choose life, life would be my choice. If i was to choose death, i would probably already...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick ...
MARILYN MONROE Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call....
ALICE COOPER I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that...
BENNY BLANCO If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to ...
JENNY ZHANG The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first d...
KID ROCK The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in tot...
OLIVER STONE I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be c...
OLIVIA SUDJIC Then she called Matthew.

He answered, "Where the fuck are you? I've been calling you for ...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll...
EMMA CRAPE After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my f...
RONDA ROUSEY The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I a...
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW I often think if mirrors could give up their dead how wonderful it would be.
BESSIE PARKES BELLOC I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
SEAN CONNERY I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on...
FERGIE Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough c...
ALICE COOPER I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I...
CHARLIE WATTS If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner ...
BRYANT GUMBEL The can also think of someone that person would call if they could only make one phone call, then ch...
NANCY BROWN There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
HENNY YOUNGMAN ..People don’t know how to be happy; they wouldn’t know what to do with their lives if they woke...
ALICE WALSH I was nervous. I woke up a little early, ... I had a few butterflies in my stomach.
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BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
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BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN