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Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
Aravind Adiga

Money, Dad, Honest

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
Adam Rickitt

Used, Influence, Seen

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Alan Dundes

Write, Material, Theory

I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
Wale

Game, Give, Big

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.
Nelson A. Miles

Government, Different, Find

I collect things that just look retarded.
Ahmet Zappa

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.
Mark McGrath

Happen, Around, Wait

For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
Ivana Trump

Best, Home, Long

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.
John Redwood

Home, Government, Down

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Best, Famous, Path

I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.
Liu Wen

Small, Shoes, Stuff

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.
John Larroquette

Books, Fiction, Primarily

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.
Melanie Brown

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.
Rick Santelli

Enough, Cannot, Taxes

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
Monica Potter

Home, Friends, Old

I don't really collect guitars.
Roger McGuinn

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.
Michael Rosenbaum

Worth, Games, Chicago

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
Gene Wolfe

Hope, Fine, Stories

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
Bill Goldberg

Work, Money, Home

I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
Jason Marsden

Action, Stuff, Room

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.
Lindsey Wixson

Love, Find, Vintage

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
Ted Olson

Mind, Through, Her

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.
Michael Aspel

Nice, Moment, Pieces

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
Lake Bell

Love, Family, Best

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank

Love, Husband, Wine

We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe

Time, Children, Fire

California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.
Craig Benson

Money, Around, State

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
Maggie Grace

Wine, Few, Full

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
Bobby Ray Inman

Decision, Another, Within

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
Eric Allman

Good, Food, Long

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