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Certificates Quotes

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

"ABC Grills Trump With Tough Questions, Provided Softballs for Dem Candidates in 2007". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 19, 2011.

Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.

"Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2007.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.52, Michael O'Mara Books

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

"Karl Pilkington On Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe Show: I Don’t Watch Or Understand Awards". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2012.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

"COVER STORY : Ob-la-di, Life Goes On : Paul McCartney was crushed by the Beatles' dissolution in 1970, but he's singing a different tune now (about and with the group)". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. November 12, 1995.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.95, Random House