Patricia Ireland Quotes

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

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• My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Children
  • Decision

• Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • World
  • Succeed
  • Youth

• Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Flaws

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Money

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Tears
  • Walk

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Leader

• I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Life
  • Think
  • Forever

• Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Herbs

• President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Political
  • Legal

• In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Food

• When your study of Buddhism is through you find you haven’t anything new.

  

  Bankei Yōtaku
  • Study
  • Find
  • New

• I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Father

• No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

  

  Mitchell Zuckoff
  • People
  • Money
  • Purpose

• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Food
  • New
  • Equality