Dolores Huerta Quotes

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

Dolores Huerta

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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Morning
  • Same
  • Media

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Themselves

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Finding

• I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Feelings

• I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Comedy

• The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Work

• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • Life
  • Women
  • Political