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• The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having their tea all over the lawns. The scene was entirely too cheery for journalism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Soccer, Baby

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

  Len Goodman

  World, Cups, Lattes

  "'Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars' - season premiere recap". www.digitalspy.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Dancer, Brave

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• Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

  Wim Wenders

  Sex, Violin, Cups

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

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• You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

  Peter Kay

  Biscuits, Dip, Break

  "Mum Wants A Bungalow". Stand-up comedy tour by Peter Kay, 2003.

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• No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Makeup, Men

  "Eddie Izzard: Sexie". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Morning, Lunch

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.

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• There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Moving, Party

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• Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tea Leaves, Trying, Looks

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• You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Funny, Life, World

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• If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

  George Harrison

  Government, Half, Acid

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• Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.

  Tasha Tudor

  Song, People, Enjoy Life

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• People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Strong, Believe, Water

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• Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Drinking, Devotee, Tea Drinking

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• The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily lives, then we can change our governments and can change the world. Our president and governments are us. They reflect our lifestyle and our way of thinking. The way we hold a cup of tea, pick up the newspaper or even use toilet paper are directly related to peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Thinking, Government

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• I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

  Jared Leto

  Coffee, Cookies, Taste

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• Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

  Lynn Fontanne

  Two, Water, Bags

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• I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

  Barack Obama

  Morning, Book, Chaos

  "What's in Obama's 'book full of death'" By Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary.

  Chuck Lorre

  Art, Sex, Mean

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• I like the pause that tea allows

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Pauses

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• I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.

  Barack Obama

  Way, Rooms, Doorstep

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. October 16, 2008.

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• All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

  Mark Strong

  Fighting, Blow, Knights

  "Robin Hood star Mark Strong: 'Real knights would have needed tea breaks'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

  Louis Armstrong

  Men, Feel Good, Good Man

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• I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

  Billy Campbell

  Hair, Oil, Tree

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

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• When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Suffering, Wish

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