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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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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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
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The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.
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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.
