Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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• I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Decided
  • Then
  • Sue

• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Place
  • Sail

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • God
  • Me
  • Harsh

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Way
  • Style
  • Relate

• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • End
  • Round

• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Important
  • Words
  • Goodbye

• I am not the kind of girlWho should be rudely bargin' in on a white veil occasion.But you are not the kind of boyWho should be marrying the wrong girl.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Girl

• Nothing is certain-that is the first lesson.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi

• The industry has not grown much during the past three or four years. It is practically stabilized at the present 1927. What has taken place is a shift from one manufacturer to another.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Past
  • Taken
  • Present

• Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.

  

  Arthur Machen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• His own infinity becomes zero in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at all. Trillions multiplies by trillions of trillions of such as he could not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt himself bound by some mysterious power.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Power
  • Mysterious

• You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Control
  • Focus

• We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Work
  • Temptation

• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

  

  Ken Wilber
  • Spiritual
  • Teacher
  • Ego

• The Populist Caucus believes that all Americans should have access to affordable, quality healthcare.

  

  Bruce Braley
  • Quality
  • Health care

• I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez