Tea Quotes - Page 34

• The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Party, Voice

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• There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

  Henry Rollins

  Retirement, Grandchildren, Fire

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.

  Benjamin Barber

  Attitude, Dollars, Addresses

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.

  Richard Branson

  Cups, Drink, Addict

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

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• People can do whatever they want to, but I'm more pro-hetero. I'm not knocking it - I have friends that are gay. It's just that it's not my cup of tea, l guess. That's all. People can do what they want.

  Axl Rose

  Gay, People, Want

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• I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchors, Order, Giving

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

  Mark Nepo

  Listening, Way, Helping

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

  Mac DeMarco

  Cups, Fit, Scene

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Culture, Littles

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

  Stephen King

  Use, Drink, Gallons

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• As for drinks, I'm a sucker for flavored teas.

  Christopher Tin

  Drink, Sucker

  Reddit AMA, www.topiama.com. May 8, 2014.

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• You can't help but feel the energy of the audience - and if you feel they hate you that feels weird and dirty. But I would never want to take it too seriously. It's understandable that you're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think that's helped me survive.

  Charlyne Yi

  Hate, Dirty, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, staging.believermag.com. March/April 2010.

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• Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: "Have a drink on me." The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• If I'm having a chardonnay in the show, it'll be green tea with water.

  Kether Donohue

  Water, Green, Chardonnay

  "‘You’re the Worst’ co-star Kether Donohue on the joys of being ‘TV fat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 16, 2015.

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• On the day of the game you get there quite early, about 10 o'clock for a 3 o'clock kick-off, because you do a little bit of filming early on. You need to meet the crew and they need to have time to get a cup of tea and all those things the crew like to do before they go out filming.

  Jill Douglas

  Games, Littles, Cups

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company. He asked me if I'd written anything, and I said yes. Then he said 'why don't you just shoot it'? And I thought, "duh!" Best advice I ever got.

  Chika Anadu

  Guy, Advice, Duh

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• I have reached here by selling tea.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Selling

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• There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.

  Al Gore

  Country, Brother, Horse

  "Al Gore Calls for 'American Spring'". "The Five" with Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. August 04, 2011.

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• In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

  Eric Bolling

  Party, Tree, Honor

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

  John Adams

  Cutting, Night, Bridges

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.333

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• I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

  Eric Morecambe

  Morning, Grateful, Wife

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• There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

  Michael Steele

  Struggle, Party, Fighting

  "Countdown to Election Day; Miners Tell Their Tale; Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94; President and First Lady Campaigning". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

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• I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain acceptance. Frustration at the pointlessness and predictability of smalltalk. Oh and a lot of anger about tea, which the British seem to use to avoid actually saying anything.

  Rupert Friend

  Acceptance, Frustration, Use

  "Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

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