Maxine Waters Quotes
As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
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Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.
