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• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.15, Villard

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• I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Political, Needs

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 4, 2011.

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• Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Republican, Conditions

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• You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Groups, Problem, Stereotype

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• I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'

  Jesse Ventura

  Thinking, Guy, Voting

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• I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Fun, Care

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

  Christopher Walken

  Distance, Home, Two

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

  Alice Walker

  Confused, Government, People

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• I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

  Andy Warhol

  Home, Commercial Art, Long

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

  Emma Watson

  Groups, 20th Birthday, Single Picture

  "Emma Watson In ‘Marie Claire’: Talks Working Childhood, ‘Protective’ College Classmates", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Choices, Pro Life

  "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.

  J. C. Watts

  Impact, People, Agendas

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Gun, Law

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

  Paul Wellstone

  Wings, Politics, Pumpkin

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.226, Random House

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• I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.

  Allen West

  Believe, Progressive, Communist

  "The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness'". "All Thnigs Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 29, 2012.

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• When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

  Allen West

  Military, Views, Perspective

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• I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Voting, Conservative, Labour

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• At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

  Kristen Wiig

  Talking, Dumb, Forget

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

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• Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

  George Will

  Alaska, Office, President

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Two, Office, President

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Cutting, Reality

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

  Margaret Haddix

  Hats, Celebrate, Knows

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “The 39 Clues #10: Into the Gauntlet”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hands, Political, Getting High

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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• When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Snakes, Wings, Political

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• In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,” she told Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Trying, Three

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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