Alexandra Pelosi Quotes

We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.

Alexandra Pelosi

• Distinction
• Immigrants
• Work Ethic

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• My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Work
  • High
  • Me

• I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants
  • Our

• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Immigration
  • Immigrants

• I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Work Ethic

• I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Stupid

• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the prime minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  

  Liam Fox
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Friend

• In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Political
  • New York
  • Lit

• I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Lovers
  • Distinction
  • Storyteller

• I'm going to copyright myself so he can have that distinction, sell them off.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Distinction
  • Copyright

• I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you're out touring with a band and then you're writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn't it all the same, in a way? It's all just music.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Distinction

• It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hard
  • Virtues
  • Distinction

• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Distinction
  • Brute

• It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Loved
  • Distinction

• The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Distinction
  • Supreme

• We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

  

  William Patten
  • Action
  • Morality
  • Fundamentals

• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Future
  • Matter
  • Questions

• Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

  

  Tom Allen
  • Winter
  • Activity
  • Maine

• I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Believe
  • Emotional
  • Certain

• We like to make the distinction between immigrants we want and immigrants we don't want. They all share one thing, and that's the work ethic.

  

  Alexandra Pelosi
  • Distinction
  • Immigrants
  • Work Ethic