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While campaigning for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1960, Wills took out a series of ads with the declaration "Win, lose or draw, you`re all my cousins and I love you."It was signed "Your cousin, Chill Wills". One member of the Academy placed a response ad stating: "Dear Mr. Chill Wills, I am delighted to be your cousin but I voted for Sal Mineo. "It was signed, Groucho Marx.

- Chill Wills

I`m not cynical. I`m merely stating a fact. Most filmmakers` entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That`s why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I`m not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

- John Malkovich

(stating that the best moment in the 2004 campaign for Democratic presidential nominee was Howard Dean`s post-Iowa speech) "Because clearly everybody was captivated by it. I think that`s an argument why he should be President, because he can capture everyone`s attention. Listen, George W. Bush was a cheerleader. I`m sure he screamed like that when he was at Yale, and I don`t see why that disqualifies someone from being President. But George Bush did it in a human pyramid.

- Stephen Colbert

Some people may feel that we are stating the obvious and some people may not. We want to encourage people to move away from the coast rather than towards it.

- Brad Davis

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

- Bertrand Russell

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON`T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

- Groucho Marx

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

- Heinrich Himmler

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn`t be here. I don`t mean to put them down, but I`m just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

- Roger Daltrey

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

- Eleanor Clift

(The segment opened with Kelly saying DeLay is eager for his day in court and a clip of DeLay stating emphatically) I`m innocent, and Earle (Prosecutor Ronnie Earle) knows it. ... our job is to prosecute abuses of power.

- Greg Kelly

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

- James Monroe

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

- Alan Skrainka

Any registered voter eligible to vote in the election may vote by absentee ballot without stating a reason.

- Assar Lindbeck

Approximately 2.5 to 3 hours later I received another telephone call from the Nursing Staff stating that they had noticed change of mental status with the patient. Apparently he was having difficulty walking. He was unable to swallow his pills and actually kind of spit the antibiotics out. They felt that the patient was having significant changes.

- Azzam Tamimi

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

- Bertrand Russell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution

- Bertrand Russell