Bev Perdue Quotes

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Light

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Writing
  • Independent
  • Speaking

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Soul
  • Building
  • Smell

• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

  

  Halsey
  • Life
  • Home
  • Guy

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Prayer

• I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Influence

• It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Game
  • Hate
  • Alone

• Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

  

  Bev Perdue
  • Different
  • Long
  • Women