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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."Source: 80 million United States Postage stamps | Author: Maya Angelou
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Mahatma Gandhi
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."Source: None. | Speaker: Edward Murphy
"Billions and billions."Source: Carl Sagan | Speaker: Carl Sagan
"Come up and see me sometime."Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou
"Don't bring me down…Bruce!"Source: "Don't Bring Me Down" | Speaker: Electric Light Orchestra
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."Source: Henry Ford's Marketing Team | Speaker: Henry Ford
"Excuse me while I kiss this guy."Source: "Purple Haze" | Speaker: Jimi Hendrix
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."Source: Not verified | Speaker: Thomas Edison
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."Source: Misquoted | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"Hold me closer, Tony Danza."Source: "Tiny Dancer" | Speaker: Elton John
"I can see Russia from my house!"Source: TV Interview | Speaker: Sarah Palin
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."Speaker: Voltaire
"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best"Source: Marilyn Monroe | Speaker: Marilyn Monroe
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."Source: Misquote | Speaker: Joseph Goebbels
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"Just the facts, ma'am."Source: Dragnet | Speaker: Sgt. Joe Friday
"Let them eat cake!"Source: Marie Antoinette | Speaker: Marie Antoinette
"Me, Tarzan. You, Jane."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"Nice guys finish last."Source: Leo Durocher | Speaker: Leo Durocher
"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."Source: "Michelle" | Speaker: The Beatles
"Starve a cold, feed a fever."Source: Medieval Reference Manual | Author: John Withals
"This whole court's out of order!"Source: …And Justice for All | Speaker: Arthur Kirkland
"Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."Source: Dr. Seuss | Speaker: Dr. Seuss
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."Source: Marilyn Monroe | Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Wrapped up like a douche..."Source: Blinded by the Light | Speaker: Manfred Mann
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."Source: Unknown | Author: Mahatma Gandhi