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"You can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done."
"The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not irrational or unusual. The question is: Were you doing it in an appropriate way and through proper channels?"
"Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office."
"I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief."
"Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done."
"The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question."
"In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function."
"I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films."
"If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office."
"I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office."
"Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world."
"He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President."
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
"Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature."
"Virtue's office never breaks men's troth."
"Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity."
"The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits"
"When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public."
"This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office."
