Claiborne Pell Quotes

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

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• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • School
  • Bad
  • Never

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Never
  • Bubble

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Food
  • Philosophy
  • Roast

• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • Like
  • Trump

• Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Team
  • Best
  • Football

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Ambition

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• I was never into the powders or pills. I tried it all but didn't like that clenched-teeth feeling. I didn't like the 'I'm a palpitating rabbit and I'm gonna solve the world's problems' feeling either. I drank some beer. I'm still here.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Beer

• Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Education
  • Accomplishment

• I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

  

  Corey Haim

• When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

  

  David Harewood

• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • House

• I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Life
  • Partner

• Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Man
  • Adventure

• For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thoughts

• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Desire

• The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Wisdom

• My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

  

  Claiborne Pell