Jackie Speier Quotes
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
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Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
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I saw bat speed right from the beginning. After you've got bat speed, my job is to get him into position to use the bat speed. That's what we've worked on, proper positioning, stay down on the ball and not try to pull everything.
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Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.
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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
