Party Quotes - Page 36

• A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.

  Jan Gehl

  Cities, People, Enjoy

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• Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

  Ann Patchett

  Long, Dull, Dinner

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.216, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

  David Horowitz

  Political, Indoctrination, University

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• But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

  Clarence Thomas

  Hymns, Black, Opinion

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

  Thelonious Monk

  House, Prohibition, Used

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• All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

  Kate Moss

  Pumpkin, Hours, Models

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

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• The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

  Amos Oz

  Gaps, Labor

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• None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Goes On, Want, Conflict

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• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

  Victor Hugo

  Europe, Civilization, Issues

  "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.

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• This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

  David Byrne

  Expression, Fooling Around, Talking Heads

  David Byrne, Frank Olinsky, Talking Heads (Musical group) (1987). “What the songs look like”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Race, Voting

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  People, Bed, Seven

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• Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Struggle, Long, Effort

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• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, People, Cocktails

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• Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.

  Frank Knight

  Mean, Names, People

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• Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

  Lauren Graham

  Christmas, Dad, Years

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• I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Christmas, Thinking, House

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• The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Sunshine, Rights, America

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Independent, Government, Political

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.121, Basic Books

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• He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.

  Abraham Cahan

  Russia, Race, Government

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• Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

  Donna Shalala

  Inspirational, Dance, Fun

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• In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

  Robert Menzies

  Remarkable, Contempt, Treated

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• We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

  Robert Menzies

  Believe, Rights, Names

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• I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.

  Wendy Alexander

  Regret, Suggestions, Publicity

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• That might work," I said. "I'm good at faking it." This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us. "You didn't mean... ?" Morelli asked. "No. Of course not." "Never?" "Maybe once." His eyes narrowed. "Once?" "It's all that comes to mind. It was the time we were late for your Uncle Spud's birthday party." "I remember that. That was great. You're telling me you faked it?" "We were late! I couldn't concentrate. It seemed like the best way to go.

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Couple, Mean

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