James Wolcott Quotes

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

James Wolcott

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1952

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If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

John Caudwell

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I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

Melanie Scrofano

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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.

Amit Bhatia

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My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

Mary-Louise Parker

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I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

Lisa Lampanelli

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When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.

Juan Gabriel

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Judy Biggert

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As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.

Jay Parini

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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

Cory Booker

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It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

Anne F. Beiler

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I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Ali Hewson

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

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