He famously mocked the idea of American exceptionalism, deriding her as indistinct from Britain or Greece.
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He famously has predicted that America will return to the gold standard within five years.
He famously expressed his frustration in a colourful speech to the Republican National Convention in 2004.
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He famously almost made the final of the AAAs 800m a couple of years ago.
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"My theory of the Cold War is that we win and they lose, " he famously remarked.
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In addition to losing the 100 meters, he famously blew the baton pass in the 400 meter relay.
In 1998 he famously interrupted proceedings in a High Court libel trial to ask: ''What is Linford Christie's lunchbox?
And he famously traded his New York Knicks hat for that of the Nets (and a small ownership stake).
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He famously advised Mayer after she got the job to turn around and fire 10, 000 people at the company.
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Despite this, he famously lost his seat last November to John Thune, a Republican 13 years younger and a good bit taller.
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As Icahn left, remember, he famously said he wished he could duplicate Carol Bartz so that she could run all his portfolio companies.
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He famously confronted the hosts of CNN's crossfire programme, accusing them of "partisan hackery" and "doing theatre when you should be doing debate".
He famously responded, "I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me, " a one-liner he came to regret when Tressel was later forced to resign.
Ten years ago, he famously used a fretsaw to cut off the tips of his fingers on the same hand after they'd been damaged by frostbite.
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At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, he famously refused to run on a Sunday, ruling him out of the 100 metres race to which he was best suited.
He famously asked his first wife, his high school geometry teacher for a divorce, when she was in the hospital with uterine cancer, Gingrich held himself to standards.
When the agent Peter Wright published Spycatcher (in 1987) he famously claimed that the Security Service had 'bugged and burgled its way across London' - my conspirators were far less ambitious.
With "Maus, " Mr. Spiegelman found a subject, the Holocaust, which he famously described as "too profane to show directly, " hence his depiction of animals as opposed to human beings.
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He famously said in an annual meeting that his smaller company, had the same earnings as previously, and it was analogous to a plane descending from 30, 000 feet to 15, 000 feet.
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When he famously got a home run taken away from him for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983, he went from dugout to umpire in a 3.7 seconds.
He famously sang of happiness as Lubbock in his rear view mirror, but later in the song he decided that happiness was Lubbock growing nearer and nearer, as he came home to Mama.
So that he could observe the Sabbath, he famously sent a taped acceptance speech to the 1988 state convention that nominated him to run (and to win by a whisker) against the incumbent Republican, Lowell Weicker.
He famously delayed apologizing for the iPhone 4 antenna by deploying defensiveness, scorn and even blame -- resulting in the enduring "You're holding it wrong" meme, a testimony of Apple hubris if there ever was one.
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In his prepared comments, the physician and former health commissioner for New York City (where he famously and controversially fought tobacco and trans-fats under Mayor Michael Bloomberg) sought to skirt naming nations that have lagged in curbing self-destructive behaviors.
Jack Welch gave further impetus to the trend when he famously took General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) to greater profitability by dumping underperforming parts of his company instead of pouring resources into trying to save them.
Using an example from the Bible, he said: "Faced with what looks like a simple challenge about whether you pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not, he famously shrugs it off, saying, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to God.
He scored hugely in music, both on the production and retail sides with Virgin Records (the Sex Pistols were signed to his label early on) and he famously donned a white wedding gown to promote Virgin Brides, something you would be unlikely to have seen Mitt Romney doing for Bain Capital.
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When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.
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