Scott McClellan Quotes

Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

Scott McClellan

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• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • People
  • Like
  • Irish

• I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.

  

  Nate Holland
  • World
  • Heart
  • Best

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Washington
  • Teeth
  • Edge

• It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Evil
  • Fact
  • Others

• If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Perfect

• But no man's a hero to himself.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hero

• Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, "Hey, let's do this once in a while." We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • People
  • War
  • Enemy