Scott McClellan Quotes
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
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When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
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Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.
