Christine Pelosi Quotes
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
Christine Pelosi
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
Aaron Patzer
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
Zac Brown Band
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
Tab Hunter
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
T Bone Burnett
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
Idina Menzel
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Parker Posey
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
Zach Anner
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
Vera Wang
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
Taylor Kitsch
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
Taya Kyle
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Patricia Schroeder
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
Nancy Gibbs
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
Kat Graham
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I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
Colson Whitehead
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I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
Natascha McElhone
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.
Eula Biss
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
Rainn Wilson
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You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.
Joe Kennedy III
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With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
Christine Pelosi
