Maxine Waters Quotes
I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
Quotes to Explore
-
If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
-
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
-
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
-
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
-
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
-
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-
We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
-
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
-
Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
-
I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
-
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
-
If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
-
I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
-
Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
-
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
-
A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
-
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
-
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
-
My wife says to do the dishes, and I'm like, 'Yes, baby. I can clean up.'
-
Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
-
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
-
I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
