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You can go to the best restaurant in town with no reservation, at peak mealtime with seven friends, and say, `We`re hungry.` Then you could leave that meal, call a guy on the way to the airport to fire up a jet to take you to Vegas, go to a casino with nothing -no wallet, nothing and talk a casino manager into giving you a $50,000 line of credit. - On the lifestyle you can have as a young, hot movie star.

- Charlie Sheen

I`m not going to give you those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-stories, but I`ve gone without a meal or two in my lifetime, and I still don`t expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me. Hard times aren`t something I can blame my fellow citizens for. Years ago, I didn`t have all the opportunities, either. But you can`t whine and bellyache `cause somebody else got a good break and you didn`t, like these Indians are. We`ll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.

- John Wayne

I`m quite sure that the concept of a government-run reservation would have an ill effect on anyone. But that seems to be what the socialists are working for now - to have everyone cared for from cradle to grave.

- John Wayne

I was not really fond of marriage, of contracts,but when everything became so evident with Karine, all fears and uncertainty disappeared. I only wanted to make her happy. When it was time to arrange everything for the wedding, I was in Africa in a reservation surrounded by snakes and lions, and I was stressed thinking about Karine, who had to face it all alone. She came for a while over there with Roxane, and it was wonderful.

- Vincent Perez

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

- Dick Thornburgh

(Years later, the soldiers came again, telling the people to take only what they could carry, and made them cross the Missouri River.) We went to Standing Rock Reservation, and made the best of it, ... We moved 30 miles away from the soldier fort because it was a place of sickness.

- Mary Louise

You`d never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

- Alex Cox
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`The positive things are very shallow; the positive things would be things like: Getting any restaurant reservation you like! Getting to the front of the line! Being given free things! So what? The traveling is monstrous because you get bothered all the time. The hell of going on holiday when you`re famous! You can`t go anywhere! It`s just no fun!

- Elizabeth Hurley

My reservation going into this was that no matter how good it turned out, criticism would soon follow. You can`t attempt a rock classic (especially a cult band like the Velvets) and not get a few sneers. But the important thing here is that maybe we might help turn a new generation on to this amazing art rock band and change the perspectives of a few unknowing listeners.

- Brian Bell

I can say without reservation that Oklahoma City is now at the top of the list.

- David Stern

She`s an old ricer and knows everybody on this reservation.

- Winona LaDuke

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

- Jacques Lacan

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

- Alan Herbert

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

- Allan Lichtman

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

- Anabella Hedman

Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while it has known that what grudging respect it has obtained from the North has come because the South has maintained the standards of white civilization. It knows that if it were to accept without reservation the dictates of the Supreme Court, it might be turned into something like those `mixed sections` found in large Northern cities.

- Ann Donovan

People are in tears at those reservation centers.

- Ata Khan
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As soon as the agent puts your name in for your reservation -- and it`s already in the machine -- then the machine will not even spit out a boarding pass,

- Augustin de Saint Beuve

He`s a friend. We`ve been friends for 20 years and I really count him as a friend, and I don`t have any reservation at all about saying I`d give him a substantial check,

- Avril Graham

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

- Bhagavad Gita