Christine Pelosi Quotes

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

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• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Hair
  • First
  • Broadway

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Look

• Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Respect

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Done
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Find

• Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Difficult

• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Customers
  • Where
  • Matters

• I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Work
  • Successful
  • Stars

• In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Government
  • China
  • Improve

• I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Up
  • Love
  • You

• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Humanity
  • Moment
  • Ship

• I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fight

• I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Political
  • Democracy

• In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...

  

  Han Fei
  • May

• I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Violence

• Great conversations always spark in a genuine interest to recognize and know the other person's story and, therefore, recognizing and understanding and celebrating their humanity.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • Knowledge
  • Valuable
  • Asset

• The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Stupid

• In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

  

  Christine Pelosi