Scott McClellan Quotes
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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I want people to be happy.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.