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"Les" Brown is an American motivational speaker, author, radio DJ, former television host, and former politician.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs — but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

— "Marxism and the Literary Critic," Encounter, XI (November 1958)

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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.


— Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday.

Tags: heart, singing, bird, nest, water'd, appletree, boughs, bent, thickset

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He can't even shoot straight.

joseph stalin

— On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston

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You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.


— 1993  On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.

Tags: You, need, fight, die, straight

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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

maya angelou

— "Still I Rise"

Tags: You, may, me, words, cut, eyes, kill, air, rise

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The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

william ralph inge

— 1948  The End of an  Age, ch.4.

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I'm going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot 'em.

thompson, hugh, jr.

— To Spec. Lawrence Colburn, giving him the order to fire on any fellow US Army soldiers if they attempted to kill a group of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. [1]

Tags: going, over, bunker, myself, squad, opens, 'em

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You [recruits] have sworn loyalty to me. You have only one enemy and that is my enemy. In the present social confusion it may come about that I order you to shoot down your own relatives, brothers or parents but even then you must follow my orders without a murmur.


— Speech (23 November 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158.

Tags: You, recruits, sworn, loyalty, me, one, enemy, present, social

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I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.


— E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (1936), 'Mickey and Minnie'

Tags: Hippopotamus, bullets, platinum, use, leaden, hide, flatten, 'em

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And sad,Oh sad, that glen with one thin stream He met his death in; and a farmer told me There was but one small bird to shoot: it sang 'Better Beast and know your end, and die Than Man with murderous angels in his head.'


— c.1956  'The Tomb of Michael Collins'.

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She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.


— 1979  On his wife and fellow editor Katharine S White. Onward and Upward in the Garden.

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Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'


— 1883  Impressions of America: Leadville.

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Guns are not only for soldiers. Every person can own a gun. If they shoot, you shoot back.


— Translated from Rwanda-Rundi
— PBS Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda. Transcript.

Tags: Guns, soldiers, person, can, own, gun, you

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"To be perfectly honest with you, ABC picks you to do this and then the machine goes into action and you shoot promos. But I'm still sitting in my bedroom at home going, 'Jeez, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.' And it's a weird situation to be in. And I guess we'll all find out.

jimmy kimmel

— On getting his own late-night program, Jimmy Kimmel Live! — reported in Alan Sepinwall (January 26, 2003) "A regular guy steps into stardom", The Star-Ledger, p. 1.

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[F]inally saw the Megan Fox Maxim shoot. Meh. I'd have preferred Miley Cyrus.

david shuster

— [7]

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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.

Herbert Spencer

— "Patriotism", Pg. 126.

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Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,And catch the manners, living as they rise;Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13.

Tags: Eye, nature's, walks, folly, fliesAnd, catch, manners, living, we

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I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars.

eminem

— "Not Afraid"

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Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.

francis fukuyama

— On The Colbert Report, May 2, 2011,[3] answering the question of who Americans should be scared of now that bin Laden is dead

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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

Plutarch

— Aemilius, sec. 19.

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And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own slaves that summer is now nigh at hand.


— Bible, in An American Commentary on the New Testament, Volume 1; Volumes 6-7, p.305

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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

john dryden

— John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe, Act III, scene 1.

Tags: Youth, watch, joys, fly

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And in my mind, I'm going why can't I just shoot this guy in the spine right now; shoot him in the spine, explain the facts of life to him


— Ted Nugent, as guest DJ on WRIF-FM, Detroit, September 28, 1990; referring to an encounter with a Hare Krishna

Tags: mind, going, can't, guy, spine, right, now, him, explain

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Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Loves of the Angels, Third Angel's Story, Stanza 11.

Tags: Humility, low, sweet, root, heavenly, virtues

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I'm not going to shoot you between the eyes, John, I'm going to shoot you between the balls!


— Who: Bennett
— Source: Commando
— Note: Character is impaled by a pipe after this line.

Tags: going, you, eyes, John, balls

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John, I'm not gonna shoot you between the eyes! I'm gonna shoot you between the balls!


— Who: Bennett
— Note: Says this line as John breaks a pipe loose. John then throws the pipe at Bennet and it impales him in the stomach.

Tags: John, you, eyes, balls

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Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.


— Who: Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in response to a remark by a Dallas policeman: "Lee, if anybody shoots at you, I hope they're as good a shot as you are," moments before being shot by Jack Ruby.

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My God, don't shoot!


— Who: Soapy Smith, American con artist
— Note: Said during the Shootout on Juneau Wharf

Tags: God

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shoot me!


— Who: Tucker
— Note: He breaks his leg from falling down a manhole. CJ drags him back through the sewer but the zombies catch up and start to devour Tucker. He tells CJ to shoot him, which he does.

Tags: me

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