Ayanna Pressley Quotes
We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
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I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.
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We desperately need comprehensive immigration reform in this nation, and yes, comprehensive immigration reform proposals are nuanced and complicated, but you know what shouldn't be? Our capacity to see each other's humanity.
