Jeannette Rankin Quotes

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Say
  • Sushi

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Alone
  • Singing

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Driving
  • Were

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Just

• Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Like
  • Chance

• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • Opinion
  • Race

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Courage

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Faith
  • Rest
  • Process

• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Dream
  • Star
  • Monster

• Using vehicles as weapons is a tactic that has often used by Palestinian terrorists to target Israelis, but in 2014, an ISIS spokesman had encouraged such vehicular attacks in the West, saying of ISIS' enemies, 'Run him over with your car.'

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Car

• I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Page

• One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • People
  • Brother

• Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

  

  David Steinberg
  • Lawyer

• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Die

• Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

  

  Jeannette Rankin