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In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
John Cleese

America, Both, Either

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.
Amanda Holden

Dead, Phone, Mobile

I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.
David Byrne

After, Off, While

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Ann Coulter

American, While, Security

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant

Poor, Service, Expect

We rest our case on the production numbers.
Mel Brooks

Rest, Production, Numbers

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Daniel Webster

Wishes, Concerned, Judgment

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr

Bad, Rich, Poor

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.
Susan Orlean

Nice, High, Water

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
Ang Lee

Money, Successful, Give

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting

Life, Work, Off

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis Gates

Hard, Working, Poverty

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
Henry Louis Gates

Family, Envy, Find

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
George Michael

Person, Thought, Wrong

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
Jack Nicholson

Thinking, Before, Start

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth

Christian, Looking, Looks

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
Marilyn vos Savant

Serious, Process, Crimes

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
Mark Zuckerberg

I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to make sure it's OK.
David Cameron

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.
Helena Bonham Carter

Done, Small, Joy

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
Anne Lamott

Mother, Husband, Someone

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Laurence Sterne

Men, Humanity, Worst

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
Dick Cheney

Control, America, Republican

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens

Thought, Thoughts, Epidemic

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Human

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Henry A. Wallace

Growth, Modern, Prejudice

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

Best, Legal, Political

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
George McGovern

Whole, Identity, Tragic

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Life, Pain, Human

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Girl, Parents

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