Scott McClellan Quotes
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
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I think I was just very determined, on a whole other level, just to play in this league.
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Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!
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The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
