Tea Quotes - Page 38

• The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

  Tammy Bruce

  Party, People, Political

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge" by Tammy Bruce, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

  Brad Carson

  Appreciation, Self, Population

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• I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Boys, Wanted

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• First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Party, Thinking, Church

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• I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

  Doug Davidson

  Pie, Cups, Host

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• I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Needs, Cups

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• Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

  Russ Feingold

  Wall, Party, Glasses

  "Feingold courts tea party votes" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 08, 2010.

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• There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Cheer, Party, Foxes

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Sweet, Dog, New York

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Wake Up, Drink, Mates

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• Everyone's saved, we're in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.

  Jethro Tull

  Death, Afternoon, Graves

  Song: A Passion Play, Album: A Passion Play

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• Every morning just before breakfast I don't want no coffee or tea, just me and my good Buddy Wieser, that's all I ever need.

  George Thorogood

  Morning, Coffee, Alcohol

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• Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

  Alanis Morissette

  Peace, Grease, Special

  Song: So Pure, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• Baby, shut up and let me drink the wine from your fur tea cup.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Wine, Fur

  Song: Feed My Frankenstein, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Way, Motivated, I Can

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• Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Selfish, Party, Thinking

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• So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

  Bob Inglis

  Party, Conservative, Enough

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• I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Peace, Long, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.189, Youcanprint

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• I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

  Amanda Plummer

  Play, Careers, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Party, Common Sense, Political

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  Carl Paladino

  Dog, Party, Thinking

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• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Morning, Coffee, Buddhism

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Block, Voice, Iphone

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

  Mike Lee

  Party, Kids, Views

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