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• As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

  William Hague

  Strong, Shadow, Climate

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• I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.

  Clive Owen

  Shaving, Stuff, Bathroom

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• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

  Paul Weller

  Player, Age, Records

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• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  College, Filing Cabinet, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Essence, Class

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

  Shinzo Abe

  Administration, Deputies, Chiefs

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Fire, Knives

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.468, Penguin

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, Would Be

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• We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Falling In Love, Talking

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.

  Jill Scott

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer.

  Rachel Vincent

  Liquor, Drawers, Felt

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.68, Harlequin

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• Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

  Gary Bauer

  President, Confirmation, Should

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• When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory...it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Dark, Aunt

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• Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

  Aaron Allston

  Stupid, Talking, Space

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• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Hands, Scar

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• During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.

  Gail Collins

  War, Years, President

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 05, 2013.

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• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Typewriters

  "Arianna's latest battle: taking on geek civilisation" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Oddities, Perfect

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Self, Years

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.382, Scholastic Inc.

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• From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

  Donna Tartt

  Song, Sheep, Gentleman

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• Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Worry, President

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