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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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
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I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
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Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.
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It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.
