quotes about Parades
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
-- Amy Goodman -
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
-- Christopher MorleySource : Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”
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Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
-- Dean Koontz -
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Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
-- Donald T. ReganSource : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, Donald T. Regan, Caspar W. Weinberger, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1988). “Iran-Contra investigation: joint hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, One Hundredth Congress, first session, 100-10, July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987 : testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger”
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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
-- Elliott Smith -
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
-- Garry TrudeauSource : Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
-- George W. Crane -
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
-- Georges Simenon -
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
-- Harpo MarxSource : Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.169, Hal Leonard Corporation
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In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.
-- Irving Berlin -
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There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
-- Irving Kristol -
I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?
-- Janelle MonaeSource : Song: Primetime, Album: The Electric Lady, 2013
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
-- Jean Rostand -
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
-- John Naisbitt -
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I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.
-- Lance Bass -
There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
-- Margaret ChoSource : "Cho, No Mercy" by Sam Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2005.
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I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
-- Margaret ChoSource : "Cho's Getting What She Wants / There's life after `All-American Girl'" by Liz Smith, www.sfgate.com. September 2, 1999.
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Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.
-- Merlin MannSource : Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades
-- Nathan LaneSource : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
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I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.
-- Oriana Fallaci -
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
-- Orville Dewey -
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Parade your pallor in iniquity.
-- Pete TownshendSource : Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
-- Richard Brautigan -
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
-- Robert ArdreySource : ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”
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There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
-- W. H. Auden -