Vices Quotes - Page 21

• My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mean, Ipads, Ridiculous

  "My List: Diane von Furstenberg in 24 Hours" by Jennifer Alfano, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for president, two for vice president. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

  Al Gore

  Race, Years, Two

  "I've no plans to stand for US presidency again, says Gore" by Rob Sharp, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

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• I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

  Jennifer Granholm

  President, Biden, Littles

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• Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

  Kathy Griffin

  Drink, Smoke

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• As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

  Mark Haddon

  Teenager, Team, School

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• I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

  Alexander Haig

  President, Alive, Removal

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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Heroism, Virtue, Crime

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.39

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• The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Boss, President, Millions

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• Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Loyalty, Independent, Thinking

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• I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Amusement, Entertainment

  "The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Balance, President

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• I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Beauty, Men, Competition

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

  Harvey Mackay

  Destiny, Hands, People

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• The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

  Thomas Malthus

  Population, Misery, Superiors

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.13, University of Michigan Press

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• Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

  Hilary Mantel

  Hindsight, Historian

  "Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, President

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

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• I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Turkeys, Nachos, Soy

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• Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Thinking, Umpires

  "Why Obama Shouldn’t Declare War on the Supreme Court" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. April 2, 2012.

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Levels

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Ambition is not a vice of little people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Ambition, People

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1269, Delphi Classics

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• Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Moving, Devil, Lasts

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Fall, Fighting

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• Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Winning, Emotional

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• The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, War, Fighting

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• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Time, Funny Life

  1942 'The Art of Donald McGill'.

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