Christine Pelosi Quotes
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
