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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My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
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Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.
