George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded."
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Ribbons
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Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons."
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Writer, Illustrator
"I get all tangled up in your ribbons."
Olivia Wilde
Actress, Producer, Director
"In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?"
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"and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere."
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"Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons."
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"Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
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"John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon."
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"Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder."
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"I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm."
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