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...poseur whose influence is based solely on personality. From Spring in Fialta: "Lean and arrogant, with some poisonous pun ever ready to fork out and quiver at you, and with a strange look of expectancy in his dull brown veiled eyes, this false wag had, I daresay, an irresistible effect on small rodents...
Some say that the point of the "Take Back the Night" rally is to make men more "aware" of or "sensitive" to the desires of women, so as to discourage them from committing as foul a violation as date rape. I daresay, though, that the kind of man who would rape a woman is not the sort to attend a "Take Back the Night" rally,. If such a miscreant were in the audience, the presentations are as likely to encourage his flagitious schemes as to dissuade him from them. To a rapist, the women's stories nothing but case studies...
...Davis: I had a style. I make no apologies for it, and I could be very tough about it, and I would insist on certain things because I wanted this company to survive. Now, some of us had differences of opinion, and I daresay Barry Diller was not the only one who left at that time. The only difference is that in the motion picture business in Hollywood, if somebody gets a scratch, right away it's cancer...
...traffic in this Washingtonian and Black conservative delusion. I daresay that Roger Landry, Adam Jones and other members of Peninsula would not dare fashion an anti-Italian poster with a denigrating reference to the Mafia, or an anti-Jewish poster with a denigrating, anti-Semitic reference to Jewish Americans. The Peninsula crowd of schoolboy racists would not dare do this...
...daresay I've said intolerant things," Duke responded. "I'm sorry for those remarks. I don't believe in them today...