James Carville Quotes
Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.
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Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energize the base, that's a campaign that's going down the toilet. It's a pretty good indication that they're not eating up any territory, they can't get anybody in the center to support them, they're getting shelled back into their own bunker.
