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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Great
  • Today
  • Energy

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Justice

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Me
  • Hand

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Goal

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Control
  • Destiny

• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Diversity
  • Nation
  • Fabric

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Day

• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Become
  • Strive
  • Obscure

• I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Cold

• I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Time
  • Friends

• Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

  

  George Singleton
  • Stories
  • Teach
  • Cat

• My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Life
  • Politics
  • My Life