Carolyn Maloney (Carolyn Bosher Maloney) Quotes

I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

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• The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Laws

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Women
  • American
  • Politics

• Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Business
  • Today
  • Reality

• When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Learn

• Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Different
  • Done
  • Language

• Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• If we do a DNA test of a language, its heart will be found to be very big, it absorbs everything. - Modi in Uzbekistan July 2015

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Heart

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• 'Power' is a beast to produce. Everyone behind the scenes brings a thoughtfulness and dauntless work ethic day in and day out.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Work
  • Power

• A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Help
  • Heaven
  • Journey

• A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Support

• It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • May
  • Interesting

• I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Violence