Tea Quotes - Page 16

• Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

  Ashley Jensen

  Years, Tonight, Ask Me

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• they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

  Margery Wilson

  Lunch, People, Dinner

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• Tea quenches tears and thirst.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Tears, Quench, Thirst

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• The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren. If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.

  Donal Logue

  Lonely, Thinking, Sight

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• Modi winning or not winning is not important. I can go home tomorrow & open a tea stall but the nation must not suffer.

  Narendra Modi

  Home, Winning, Suffering

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• This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, Together, India

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• We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Blessing, People

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• If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

  Richard Mourdock

  Party, Roots, Republican

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Hollywood

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• We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

  Harry Reid

  Party, Fall, Hands

  Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

  Harry Reid

  Party, Moving, Hard Times

  Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Party, Tea Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

  Martin Heinrich

  Party, Political, Republican

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• There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Recovery, Race

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• Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

  Al Swearengen

  Nasty, Language

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• As loud as fans were , they need to go home now and start soaking up a lot of tea, drinking a lot of tea for the next 36 hours, whatever the case may be, 'cause they need to be just as loud Thursday night.

  LeBron James

  Drinking, Home, Night

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 10, 2015.

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• The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Drinking, Stories, Cups

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Pleasure, Left

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.888, Delphi Classics

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• We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Moving, Two, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

  Matt Taibbi

  Meaningful, Country, Party

  "The Truth About the Tea Party". www.rollingstone.com. September 28, 2010.

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• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

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• Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

  Steve Aylett

  Gun, America, Stripping

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• It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Party, People, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.

  Tove Jansson

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Tove Jansson (2012). “The True Deceiver”, p.57, New York Review of Books

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• My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

  Rob Reiner

  Hate, Party, Guy

  "Rob Reiner likens 'tea party' movement to Hitler". latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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