No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager. – Dolly Parton
We can just keep doing it the way we’re doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now – behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role. – Gina Raimondo
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute. – Deborah Kara Unger
My first real kiss was actually on the set of ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’ with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation! – Chris Massoglia
The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it. – Monica Crowley
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte
Charlie Brown’s good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette. – Matthew Lillard
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet. – Garrett Hedlund
I love Neil Patrick Harris. I’ve always been a big fan of his – he was my first TV crush. – Christine Lakin
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. – Geri Halliwell
It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, and Iran’s puppet Assad. – Mike Pompeo
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. – Clara Zetkin
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system. – Marlin Stutzman
Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse. – Marc Faber
I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship. – Miranda Cosgrove
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! – Natalie Merchant
My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She’s hysterical, she’s beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I’m in love with her. – Ike Barinholtz
The first CD that I ever bought was ‘Britney Spears.’ It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, ‘Can I get this?’ It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me. – Joe Jonas
I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me. – Jennifer Hudson
In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play ‘Candy Crush.’ – Katarina Johnson-Thompson
