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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
Buffalo Bill

Character, Person, Strange

There's only one word for that - magic darts!
Sid Waddell

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
Hulk Hogan

Fake, Insult, Show

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin

War, Enemy, Used

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
David Mamet

Tough, Used, Gun

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
Marlee Matlin

Crazy, Ability, Disability

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington

Life, Understand, Learned

Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley

Discipline, Nasty

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Dean Koontz

Doubt, Down, Put

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Wedding, Show, Three

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Wendell Willkie

Freedom, Fight, Enjoy

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
Patti LuPone

Means, Natural, Diva

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Means, Expression

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Bo Derek

Learning, Sorry, Place

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nothing, Mean, Wrong

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
Al Pacino

Life, Good, Truth

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton

Women, Lesbian, Full

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
George Whitefield

Heart, Big, Speak

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
Colin Firth

Country, Understand, Able

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
Herbert Simon

Time, Knowledge, Rain

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

True, End, Single

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
Laura Linney

Death, Remember, Talk

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
Laura Linney

Learning, Written, Express

I'm a man of my word.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today, Africa, Islamic

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
Jason Reitman

Honest, Lucky, Worked

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Erykah Badu

Hard, Sense, Artist

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
Gustav Mahler

Live, Cannot, Anyone

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Lewis Mumford

Nothing, Values, Tools

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Erica Jong

Poetry, School, Speak

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