Keith Ellison Quotes

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

Keith Ellison

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• In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Long
  • American
  • Beach

• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • You
  • Blessed

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • You
  • Speak
  • Liars

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Road
  • Choices

• Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Marriage

• Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Mind

• There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

  

  John Tillotson
  • May
  • Way
  • Charity

• I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

  

  Mary Karr
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Political
  • Water