Celinda Lake Quotes
Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
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I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
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In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
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We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families.
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If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
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I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
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I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.
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Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?
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I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.
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I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.
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It's great when you see things on a massive scale and you see these huge sets, but it's not the be-all and end-all - it can be about characters as well.
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VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.
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Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.
