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Vote:   | A 300-pound 12-year-old is suing McDonald's because he didn't know eating a lot of burgers and a lot of fries puts on a lot of weight. |
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Vote: | A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat. |
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Vote: | All these years I've been blaming myself for my gluttony, when in fact, it was McDonald's and Arby's and Burger King and Pizza Hut all conspiring in a calorie-busting cabal to turn me into the slothful pig I've become. |
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Vote: | Arby's roast beef sandwiches are works of art. |
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Vote: | Good-looking people have charisma. Schleps like yours truly do not. I so happen to have been born with a nice round face only my mother could love. |
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Vote: | I don't go for the academic stuff. |
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Vote: | I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I don't think business news is just for old white men with money. |
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Vote: | I don't want to play nonsense games. I've had zero patience for the rudeness and vagaries of life. I've also got a short leash when it comes to jargon. |
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Vote: | I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get. |
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Vote: | I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. |
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Vote: | I want to democratize business news. |
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Vote: | I want to push people to the edge. I want to elicit a reaction. Have I ever crossed a line? Am I a rabble-rouser? Maybe. |
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Vote: | I was this Italian-Irish kid growing up. |
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Vote: | I'll rail against what I think is wrong. |
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Vote: | I'm fat. Plain and simple. |
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Vote: | I'm not an apologist for Big Tobacco or Big Fast Food. Some of them do know how to suck you in. Their advertising is clever. |
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Vote: | I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine. |
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Vote: | I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded. |
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Vote: | I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it. |
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Vote: | I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots. |
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Vote: | I've seen rich jerks and I've seen poor jerks. Trust me when I say that jerkery knows no financial pedigree. |
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Vote: | If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney! |
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Vote: | If we're so convinced times will get tougher, why is mall traffic up? Why are car sales still strong? Why are home sales still chugging along? |
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Vote: | It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time. |
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Vote: | It's like you're never good enough. |
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Vote: | It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day. |
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Vote: | It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. |
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Vote: | John Edwards is a good-looking guy. He's got great hair, a great smile. Would people be calling him charismatic or electrifying if he didn't have great hair and didn't have a great smile? What if he had no hair? What if he never smiled? Let's say John was a sulker, even a scowler, then what? |
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Vote: | My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well. |
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Vote: | Ours is an amazingly litigious society. We sue for everything and against everyone. We trip outside a store; we sue the store. |
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Vote: | People in this country appear to be very much betting on this country, and this country's uncanny knack of rebounding when so-called experts assume it is tumbling. |
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Vote: | Richard Nixon knew what he was up against in 1960. John Kennedy had matinee idol good looks. Old Dickster looked like he needed to shave three times a day and even then still looked like a used car salesman at closing time. |
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Vote: | Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln. |
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Vote: | The folks at the Golden Arches aren't some sinister Svengalis, drugging us into wolfing down their food. We do that. |
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Vote: | The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. |
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Vote: | The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas. |
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Vote: | The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product. |
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Vote: | There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you. |
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Vote: | To hear the media prognosticators tell it, we're bummed out. Consumer confidence figures show it, and the latest sentiment statistics confirm it. We're all in a foul mood: overworked and overwrought. |
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Vote: | Ugly people are never hotties. |
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Vote: | We don't think our viewers have a lot of time to look exhaustively at a lot of nuance. They want to cut to the chase and look at the big picture. |
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Vote: | We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things. |
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Vote: | We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense. |
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Vote: | We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference. |
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Vote: | We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person. |
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Vote: | Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal? |