Nancy Wilson Quotes

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Responsible
  • Cricket
  • Indian

• The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Book
  • Enjoy
  • Comedians

• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Train

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• I don't like violence.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Violence

• The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

  

  David Icke
  • Negativity

• It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

  

  Jane Wyman
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Bitter

• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Future
  • Choices

• The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

  

  B. Traven
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Organization

• Get out, realize your dream, and go for it

  

  Kai Greene
  • Dream
  • Realizing
  • Your Dreams

• There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Relationship
  • Discipline
  • Direct

• If I start thinking about who's on the opposing team and I've got to play well against that team, then the next night when we play against guys without the big names, then you don't play so well. So you try and keep a consistent approach.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Team

• Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.

  

  Vaclav Smil
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Shine

• What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Small

• Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.

  

  Adela Popescu
  • Intelligent
  • Slavery
  • Animals

• Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Happens
  • Corners
  • Tiny

• I don’t think that I am the most informed or that I’ve earned my place to be a political spokes-voice. So I try to keep that type of politic out of my songwriting and I do it more in my personal life. I do a lot of fundraising, I do a lot of awareness raising through charity fundraising and lots of stuff that I do via eBay or my website, and I try to donate to causes that are fighting Trump’s racist system or the awful effects that Brexit is going to have.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
  • Voice
  • Politic
  • Fundraiser

• Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently in Mexico than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Mother
  • Dangerous
  • Issues

• Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Important
  • Writer
  • Chekhov

• Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Issues
  • Urgent
  • Women's