Pramila Jayapal Quotes

I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the only woman of color in the Washington State Senate, and then was elected in 2016 to the United States Congress.

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• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Desire
  • Single
  • Hand

• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • University
  • Doctorate

• AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Imagine

• With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Stars
  • Caring

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fight
  • Liberty
  • Terrorism

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Destiny

• If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Bad
  • Ideas
  • Look

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.

  

  Aron Ralston
  • Experience

• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Book

• Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Women
  • Space
  • Color

• We were like bishops of opposite color.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Color

• I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the only woman of color in the Washington State Senate, and then was elected in 2016 to the United States Congress.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
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