Cecile Richards Quotes

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

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• I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Death
  • Name
  • Has

• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Music
  • Future
  • Amazing

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Fruit
  • Chicken

• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Living
  • Old

• The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Money
  • Hollywood
  • Line

• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Education
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Real
  • True
  • Myself

• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Restaurant

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Start

• If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.

  

  Flo Rida
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Go
  • Moving On

• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Day
  • Internet
  • They Say

• If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

  

  Count Basie
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Guy

• [Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Want
  • Common
  • States

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Years
  • Opportunities

• This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

  

  Cecile Richards
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