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And one of them quipped, I'm told, "But she has more natural self than half the other contestants."
This is unlike the rest of the developed world, where as George Burns quipped, "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring family in another city."
He said something to the effect that his only brush with lycanthropy was The Howling II, then he quipped, "The less said about that the better."
But, as John Maynard Keynes famously quipped, “In the long run, we are all dead.”
As the late economist Joan Robinson once quipped, just because other countries have rocks in their harbors does not mean that you should install rocks in your own.
This helps to explain why former Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans once quipped that Americans are more likely to believe in Martians than in the benefits of free trade.
The Democrat’s DiseaseBUCHAREST: “Paris,” Protestant King Henri of Navarre quipped before ascending the throne of Catholic France, “is worth a mass.”
Britain at SeaROME – In the early 1960s, former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson famously quipped that the United Kingdom had lost an empire, and not yet found a role.
As the American economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped, “The stock market has called nine of the last five recessions.”
Hitler famously quipped that while the Bolsheviks had nationalized the means of production, the Nazis had gone further by nationalizing the people themselves.
Joseph Stalin famously quipped when told to be mindful of the Vatican.
So America's Treasury Secretary quipped before President Nixon pulled the plug on the Bretton Woods system three decades ago.
Latin America’s Foxy LeadersSANTIAGO – “Every country gets the leaders it deserves,” the French counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre quipped.
“Poor old Germany,” Henry Kissinger once quipped.
Charis Thompson of the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics quipped that outcomes should not be decided by the “charismatic megafauna” – that is, the eminences who may be deservedly renowned in their scientific specialties, but remain far from omniscient.
China’s Crisis of MiscommunicationSHANGHAI – At a forum in Canberra last year, Andrew Sheng quipped, “China is transparent, but only in the Chinese sense.”
Turning the Corner in Eastern EuropeLONDON – There are various kinds of facts, the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov- Shchedrin once quipped: “There are convenient facts and inconvenient ones; and there are some that aren’t even facts.”
Asked later about his impressions of the new president, Holmes famously quipped: “second-class intellect; first-class temperament.”
As William McChesney Martin, who served as Fed Chairman in the 1950’s and 1960’s, once quipped, the central bank’s job is “to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going.”
In Bulgaria last March, one of his ministers quipped that “there will always be someone pointing fingers at us, whether or not we buy.”
Wallis Simpson, the controversial US-born Duchess of Windsor, once famously quipped, “You can never be too rich or too thin.”
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once quipped that politicians who have a vision should go and have their eyes checked.
“If all the economists were laid end to end,” George Bernard Shaw famously quipped, “they would not reach a conclusion.”
Arianna Huffington once quipped that if Lehman Brothers had been “Lehman Brothers and Sisters,” the firm would have survived.
Or, as the psychiatrist Zvi Rex famously quipped, “Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”
“They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you,” quipped Chaplin.
In his latest book, Paul Blustein recounts how a former Indian trade minister once asked his American counterpart to bring him a picture of an American farmer: “I have never actually seen one,” the minister quipped.
In such situations, the playwright Bertolt Brecht once quipped ironically, the only alternative is to “dissolve the people and elect another.”
He was baffled by the idea that, as his fellow conservative Milton Himmelfarb famously quipped, “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.”
Not the End of the World as We Know ItCAMBRIDGE: “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain once quipped.
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