Department Quotes - Page 37

• In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Men, People

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• I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

  Eric Clapton

  Beautiful, Weakness, Famous Musician

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• I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

  Eric Clapton

  Beautiful, Weakness, Musician

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• I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, World, States

  "Clinton: I'm responsible for diplomats' security" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Regret, Assessment, United States

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

  Billy Connolly

  Zoos, Parent, Pet

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• When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

  Lauren Conrad

  Art, Thinking, Together

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• Sports is the toy department of human life.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Toys, Human Life

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

  Drama, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

  Angela Davis

  Country, California, Community

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• Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as "smell good" and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.

  Beth Ditto

  Keys, Essential Oils, Smell

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

  Jennifer Egan

  Ideas, Numbers, Training

  "Pulitzer Prize 2011: Winner Jennifer Egan On The Tedium Of Writing". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.

  John Ensign

  Justice, Goal, Today

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• Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Engineering, Cities

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  Sally Field

  Growing Up, Drama, School

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• I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

  Michael J. Fox

  Conclusion, Felt

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• I despise shopping and department stores.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Shopping, Stores, Despise

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• Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

  Temple Grandin

  Parenting, Emotional, White

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

  Philip Green

  Stores, Found, Chains

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• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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• Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

  Doc Hastings

  September, Congress, Homeland Security

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• The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

  Robin Hayes

  Communication, Government, Defense

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• Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

  Robin Hayes

  Running, United States, Nonprofits

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• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Different, Literature

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• The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan and if people think I am strange they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

  David Icke

  Girl, Sports, Queens

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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