Stacey Abrams Quotes
My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
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My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
