Jackie Speier Quotes
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
Quotes to Explore
-
We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
-
For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
-
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
-
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
-
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
-
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
-
There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
-
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
-
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
-
Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
-
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
-
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
-
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
-
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
-
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
-
Life is not easy in politics.
-
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
-
People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
-
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
-
I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
-
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
-
There's not much TV these days where you really get that element of surprise. There are so many spoilers all the time.
-
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
