Tea Quotes - Page 26

• I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Nice, Black, Green

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Cowboy, Leader

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• Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, President, Bigs

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• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Party, Men

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Media, Threatened

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• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

  Bear Grylls

  Rocks, Faces, Cups

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• We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

  James P. Hoffa

  War, Party, Eye

  "Hoffa on Tea Party: 'Take These Son-of-a-Bitches Out'". www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Talking, Years

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• I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, People, Cups

  "Katherine Jenkins: this much I know". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• The Tea Party claims to want small government.

  Penn Jillette

  Party, Government, Want

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

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• I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Player

  "A star is reborn". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

  Gustav Klimt

  Inspiring, Art, Storm

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• Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, White, Giving

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”, p.62

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• The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Order, May

  "Limbaugh: GOP Willing To Lose Some Elections In Order To Get Rid Of The Tea Party", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 13, 2013.

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• If I'm in Italy I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.

  Christian Louboutin

  Two, Orange, Drink

  "Designer Christian Louboutin Can't Live Without Fruit, Drinks Gallons of Tea". Interview with Leah Chernikoff, www.bonappetit.com. December 24, 2012.

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• I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, China, Being A Teenager

  "Lowe profile" Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2001.

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• The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, People, Black

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.

  Michelle Malkin

  Party, Home, Men

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Nuts, Long

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

  Helen Mirren

  Bags, London, Drink

  “Helen Mirren: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2011.

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• I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

  Moby

  Yoga

  "Moby: Making His 'Last Night' One to Remember". Interview With Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. December 19, 2007.

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• In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

  Moby

  Christian, Interviews, Exaggeration

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• The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

  Grover Norquist

  Powerful, Party, Issues

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• The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Party, Government

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