Barbara Jordan Quotes
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a very small public.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
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These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.
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Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
