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I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

– Yevgeny Aleksandrovich YevtushenkoRate it:

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

– MartialRate it:

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

– Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weaponsRate it:

I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding.

– Jacques LeBlancRate it:

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

– Walt DisneyRate it:

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

– George WashingtonRate it:

I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.

– John K. HutchensRate it:

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

– Samuel ButlerRate it:

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

– Erma BombeckRate it:

I do not play by fortuitous means. I plan and prepare and then play my hand.

– CometanRate it:

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

– Phillips BrooksRate it:

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived ForRate it:

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

– Bette DavisRate it:

I do not rely on the odds or held back by the circumstances, but my faith is still in God alone.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

– Ashin WirathuRate it:

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

– Miguel CervantesRate it:

I do not search a true friend and true love; I practice, becoming a true friend, and give real love.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

I do not see any morality in believing that your sins have been taken away on the cross, or from those who advise their followers to do whatever they want in life.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

I do not see what is important for me, rather, I see whom I am important. That is why I am working for the needy people in Nepal.

– Ganga Sagar PantRate it:

I do not speak because I do work.

– CometanRate it:

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

– Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

– Abraham LincolnRate it:

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