Alexandra Pelosi Quotes
Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

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You cannot do only one thing.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
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Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
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I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.
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I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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In order to deceive melancholy, you must keep moving. Once you stop, it wakens, if in fact it has ever dozed off.
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Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.