Bill Pascrell Quotes
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.Bill Pascrell
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil -
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
Yaya Toure -
I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
Jackee Harry -
A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
Ted Danson
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott -
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon -
Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
Gautam Adani -
I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono -
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
Camille Paglia -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi -
Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
Francois Nars
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The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant 'otherness.'
Jeffrey Tambor -
I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
Eddie Redmayne -
I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Mariella Frostrup -
This is a big year not just for me but for everybody. If we have the same kind of year as last year, a lot of us won't be here.
Eddy Curry -
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
Bill Pascrell