“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.” YearsPoliticalUsedFatherRoomsPartyLeaderSubjectsMembersPrisonCongressBritishFighterEveningLiving RoomUnfamiliarProminentFreedom FighterLocalityCongress Party Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.” KnowsYearsWould BeUsedSongSoundPartyMy FriendsGuitar Author:Teena Marie
“I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.” ThinkingUsedParty Author:Matthew Perry
“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.” MayBeautifulUsedPartyBeautyCasesObjectsColdLoversMethodPatientLawyerRuinsOperationsPhysicistInfatuationSpectatorsMeasurementSurgeonsUnattractiveGhastlyEpithetDescribe Me Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanHomeWould BeRememberUsedHousePartyForeverViolenceWalkingHusbandBeatsAbuseDrunkComing HomeFifthAvenuesMarblePhysical AbuseStaircasesFifth Avenue Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsFirstsTwoRealUsedFoundNationsPartyFirst TimeDefensePunishmentRealizationOur TimeShockRejectsFascismColleaguesGet OverQuarrelsTrenchesPluralismRadicalismAmerican Power Author:Christopher Hitchens
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.” IfsHas BeensSaidUsedPartyCompanyTakenAdviceConservativeYesterdayBarackSchemesDoing NothingNo MoneyConservative Party Author:Gordon Brown
“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.” PeopleIfsWayTryingHumansHas BeensStillsDifferentShowsSchoolRememberMovingLife IsUsedHouseNaturalHuman BeingsPartyRolesImagineMovementIdentityReturnFitCapableAssumingUsed To BeThemeStayingVariationPersonaMimicking Book:Falling Through Space Source: Falling Through Space
“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.” WantShouldMayHas BeensStatesUseUsedPoliticsGrowthTermAnswersUnitedPartyBrainUnited StatesToo MuchImpossibleEvolutionTasteLibertarianFavorsCarrieSubstitutesSpontaneousFlavorUnattractive Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.” FeelsHas BeensJobsRememberUsedOpportunityPartyEducationCollegePerspectiveOppositesUsed To BeFeaturesDreadAdulthoodExistentialNihilismGrindDrearyJob OpportunitiesAimlessnessFrat Parties Author:John Green
“Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.” ShouldChildrenHelpingUsedPartyAdultsSmall ChildMartiniMidget Author:Barbara Walters
“I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young age to believe in magic. Our mom used to take us to fairy parties. As we got older, I was always very drawn to manifesting my own destiny...learning how to do spells and personal ritual.” ThinkingWorldBelieveAgeYoungUsedMy OwnPartyDestinyMagicMomFairyRitualManifestSpellsMetaphysicalYoung Age Author:Jessica Origliasso
“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.” GivingSaidPoliticalUsedValuesEnergyForceNationsInterestPartyConsciousnessTakenShareProductsCuriousExtrasLeisureSparesPolitical PartiesGood Will Book:A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems Source: A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems
“I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.” IfsSelfRememberUsedPartyHellUsed To BeNon Stop Author:Jerry Stahl
“Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."” KnowsWaySaidTwoHandsWantedUsedLeftEnjoyPartyIssuesCarRepublicanHusbandDemocratConservativeRanWelfareGoodbyeMy HusbandLunchPoliteInvitedSaying GoodbyeAttorneyChuckHands UpFree Lunch Author:Susana Martinez
“The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.” RunningPoliticalUsedPoliticsVoiceLeadershipPartyHistoryMillionsDemocracyGenerationsPolicyDebateUsed To BeIdeologyAccomplishmentSenateFree SpeechDictatorshipPolitical PartiesCivilityPartisanship Author:John Cornyn
“The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.” ProblemHomeUsedPoorPartyQualityTeacherBirthdayStaffBirthday PartyPoor Quality Author:Robert E. Murray
“When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.” ThinkingWorldSelfKidsUsedGuyIndividualInterestMy OwnPartyCitiesNew YorkCoupleComfortableInvestmentShoesSilverNew York CityIndividualismCrewWrapsPersonal Interest Author:Jared Leto
“As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.” FactsUsedPartyAliveJourneyProudLuckyMy FriendsGetting OldGetting OlderPlaying MusicMy JourneyLucky To Be Alive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksUsedLyingAsksPartyAttentionUsed To BePay AttentionDepressingIgnored Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Congolese rumba was so huge in Africa that everybody was inspired by it. But my African roots brought me this music. In every African family, parties in Brussels, we used to listen to this kind of music. And salsa music as well.” WellsKindUsedPartyHugeRootsInspiredSalsaBrusselsRumba Author:Stromae
“For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensReasonLawPoliticalUsedPartyAdvantageCampaignsFinanceReformCrushPolitical PartiesIncumbentsOpaquePacsCampaign FinanceCampaign Finance Reform Author:Mark Shields
“The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.” LittlesLongDonePlayTogetherUsedNightNextChanceSleepPartyPicksNext DayAll NightLiquorHustleCotton Author:Muddy Waters
“I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the best things about partaking in a show like this is, when I show up to events and parties now, they know me. I don't have to hear, 'Oh, you're an actor? Have I seen you in anything?' anymore. I used to have to start listing things off of my resume'. It's really nice not to have to do that anymore.” PeopleKnowsShowsUsedActorsPartyNiceEventsBest ThingsUncomfortableKnow MeReally NiceResumes Author:Jim Parsons
“There were times when I was broke, when I was down in Florida and I had to go to cocktail parties for 500 bucks - to see the guy that used to be in pictures. I'm not ashamed of that. I've never done anything that I was ashamed of. I've done a lot of things I didn't mean to do.” MeanDoneUsedGuyPartyUsed To BeBrokeAshamedFloridaBucksCocktailsCocktail Parties Author:Mickey Rooney
“I used to throw mad parties because I had all this damn money! Some of them got out of hand. People wanted to fight, steal necklaces off of people's necks. A little weird. I had to have armed security at my house. I was young, 21, 22.” PeopleLittlesHandsWantedYoungUsedFightingHousePartySecurityMadStealingDamnNecksNecklaces Author:DJ Quik
“I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.” IfsKidsUsedPartyChildhoodSittingTablesCrownsAnticipateAnnualsBirthday PartyCoronation Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.” WorldWaySaidSometimesKidsUsedMotherPartyWanderMy WayMy BirthdayBirthday Party Author:Kim Basinger
“With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.” ShouldStatesGovernmentUsedUnitedPartyUnited StatesFrontsOughtPoliticianRepublicanCardsPresidentialRunnersRepublican PartyEnteringFascistsBannedAscending Author:Rachel Maddow