Pramila Jayapal Quotes
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
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I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
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But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.
