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  • I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

  • The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

  • I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

    Lying   Gay   People  
    "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.
  • My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

    Father   Artist   Makeup  
  • Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

    In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) vol. 1, ch. 8
  • Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

    Army   Journey   Europe  
    "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.
  • It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

    "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.
  • Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

    Color   Black   World  
    "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.
  • The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

    Owl   Spiders   Palaces  
  • Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

  • He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'

    Basketball   Sports   Fun  
  • I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

  • There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

    Grace   World   Mercury  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.86, 谷月社
  • Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

  • Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

    Peace   War   Years  
  • Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

    Song   Clothes   Rose  
  • [On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

  • Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

  • I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

  • Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

    Peace   War   Sound  
  • The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

    Funny   Basketball   Team  
  • I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.

    War   Hero   Kids  
    Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion
  • When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

    Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.17, Random House
  • Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

    President   Fool   Legacy  
  • Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

    Political   Mind   Retail  
  • Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

    Basketball   Lied   Said  
  • I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

    Python   Office   Hills  
  • My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

  • I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

  • Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

    Leader   Climate   Blind  
    Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
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