Cabinets Quotes - Page 12

• Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

  Jack LaLanne

  Stress, Sleep, Insomnia

  Jack Lalanne (1995). “Revitalize Your Life After Fifty”, Hastings House Pub

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• The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

  John Locke

  Memories, Science, Names

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.126, CUP Archive

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• I did learn from many mistakes. First and foremost, I learned that it is important to create a wide base of support within the LDP. In forming the cabinet this time, I included almost all the members of the LDP whom I ran against during the party election for president. Also, as a result of the lessons I learned, this time my policy priorities have become very clear. This would include first and foremost restoring a robust economy. I believe this has resulted in the strong support that I am getting from the people.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Mistake, Party

  "Transcript of interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". Washington Post interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

  Will Cuppy

  Years, Whales, Two

  "The Whale". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Thank God, Want

  "The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court". Book by John W. Dean, 2001; later quoted in "Double Dipping at the Waffle House" by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate, October 11, 2001.

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• True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Children, Museums

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  Edward Heath

  Believe, Shadow, Welcome

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• I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money for the British Travel advertising in America. Said he, "Why does any American in his senses spend his vacation in the cold damp of an English summer when he could equally well bask under Italian skies? I can only suppose that your advertising is the answer." Damn right.

  David Ogilvy

  Summer, Italian, Vacation

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

  Stephen King

  Baby, Children, Stupid

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• I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

  Cheech Marin

  Kids, Want, Liquor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• What about Sarah Palin. Donald Trump had suggested she would be in his cabinet if he won. Is she going to be in?

  Megyn Kelly

  Would Be, Trump, Palin

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

  Clive Ponting

  Senior, Advice, Secret

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• To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury
  yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100
  feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can
  remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.

  Garrison Keillor

  Senior, Weekend, Luxury

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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.

  Grant Morrison

  Stars, Ocean, Thinking

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• Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

  Barry Lyga

  Spring, Men, Doors

  Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.168, Random House

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• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.

  Richard Jefferies

  Business, Lying, Equality

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• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Past, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1908). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”

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• I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump's cabinet.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Worry, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

  Jen Lancaster

  Jobs, Kissing, Kiss Me

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Prime, Ministers

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• I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Reading, Thinking

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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