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Famous Quotations from speeches...politicians...media personalities...You know the routine

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 12:46

Easy one to start us off:

"I have a dream...."

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 16:52

yep. your turn.

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 19:28

Oh dear...this is a bit of a tumbleweed thread already isn't it?
Ok - here's another one if anyone wants to play:

"I did not sleep with that woman!"

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DimpledThighs · 02/04/2007 19:32

Clinton

edam · 02/04/2007 19:33

Clinton.

'Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the point of them?'

DimpledThighs · 02/04/2007 19:34

"a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

DimpledThighs · 02/04/2007 19:34

x posts edam and I don't know yours!

edam · 02/04/2007 19:41

Don't know yours either although it's very familiar - would it be cheating if I looked it up?

DimpledThighs · 02/04/2007 19:53

google away my love - not cheating but intiative!

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 20:11

dimpled - Dalai Lama?

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DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 20:13

Or Gandhi?

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Marina · 02/04/2007 20:15

Is yours Nelson Mandela dimpledthighs

and edam's is possibly someone like Noel Coward...Chips Channon...John Gielgud?

edam · 02/04/2007 20:31

Second Marina's guess, sounds like Nelson M.

Marina's on the right track for mine too - Oscar Wilde (think it was TIOBE IIRC).

warthog · 03/04/2007 08:38

yes, agree with marina - dt is nelson mandela.

warthog · 03/04/2007 08:40

here's one:

never in the course of history have so many owed so much to so few.

DimpledThighs · 03/04/2007 08:45

yup Nelson Mandela - but was once corrected on here that it was someone else - but I think it is Mandela.

DimpledThighs · 03/04/2007 08:46

is warthog's Churchill?

DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 09:42

yep. that's churchill

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 09:43

I'll just add one while we're waiting:

"It was a woman who drove me to drink....and I never wrote to thank her."

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sassy · 03/04/2007 09:53

DrDaddy - the god/dice one -is it Dawkins?

Mine is "You can lead a whore to culture but you cannot make her think"

TheAngelWearsPrada · 03/04/2007 09:55

i dont drive so i cant drive anyone to drink

TheAngelWearsPrada · 03/04/2007 10:00

the god dice is einstein ,,,whos this "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"

DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 10:06

yes, it's einstein. isn't your one einstein too though, TheAngelWearsPrada?

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TheAngelWearsPrada · 03/04/2007 10:07

yep! hes full of them

DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 10:09

sassy - no idea

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 10:10

My all-time fave is:

"Sir, you are drunk!"
"And you, madam, are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober."

We've had a few from him already on here.

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