Pramila Jayapal Quotes
For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.Pramila Jayapal
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
Rachel McAdams -
I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt -
The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole -
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth -
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
Gail Carriger -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith -
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
Ice T -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
Zoe Saldana -
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney -
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
Young Buck -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
Edgar Ramirez
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
Edmund White -
I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
Jennifer Konner -
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Ali Abdullah Saleh -
In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.
Lauren Ashley Carter -
For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.
Pramila Jayapal