Pramila Jayapal Quotes
As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
Pramila Jayapal
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
Karl Lagerfeld
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
Tariq Ramadan
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
Pat Buchanan
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
Imelda May
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
Octavia E. Butler
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
Olivier Theyskens
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The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.
Karen Traviss
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
Hans Hofmann
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
Dan Jenkins
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter
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My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
O. T. Fagbenle
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
Larry Bucshon
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In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.
Kevin Young
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
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As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody.
Pramila Jayapal
