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.
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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.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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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.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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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.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
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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.
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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.
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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.
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When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.
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I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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Each mental act is a reality for which you are responsible.
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Nothing ever grows in this rotten old holeAnd everything is stunted and lostAnd nothing really rocks and nothing really rollsAnd nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get outAnd maybe I'm damned if I doBut with every other beat I got left in my heartYou know I'd rather be damned with you.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
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My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
