Tea Quotes - Page 39

• If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

  Sen no Rikyu

  Doe, Enough, Brewing

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Financial

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• Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

  Ray Bradbury

  Jobs, Sleep, Giving

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

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• You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

  George Mikes

  Home, Tired, Gay

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• Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

  Ann Beattie

  Thinking, Hollywood, Agents

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• 'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

  Jonathan Raban

  War, Party, Race Riots

  "Sipping with the Tea Party" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

  Minnie Driver

  China

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• It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

  Harold MacMillan

  Storm, Paper, Politics

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• As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Boys, Giving

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• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Real, Drinking, Writing

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

  George Carey

  Dog, Mean, Boys

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• At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Roots, Versus

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• It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

  Matt Taibbi

  Would Be, Racist, Narcissist

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

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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Roots

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• The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

  Bob Barr

  Hurt, Party, Reform

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• Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

  John Boozman

  Party, Thinking, Supportive

  "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

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• The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

  Tammy Bruce

  Christian, Dream, Encouragement

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

  Tammy Bruce

  Party, People, Political

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge" by Tammy Bruce, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

  Brad Carson

  Appreciation, Self, Population

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• I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Boys, Wanted

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• First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Party, Thinking, Church

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• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Cups, Host

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• I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Needs, Cups

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