Pramila Jayapal Quotes
I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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I'm thrilled to partner with Gillette to help men understand what women want. If we're able to give them that information, and Gillette can give them the tools to get there, then we both win, and that's very exciting.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
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Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
