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.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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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.
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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.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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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.
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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.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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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.
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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.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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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.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
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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.
