Scott McClellan Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'
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My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.
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It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
