Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Food

• Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Best

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Courage
  • Generosity
  • Seasons

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Think
  • Night
  • Quality

• I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Better

• I'm a working-class person, working with class.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • Working
  • Class

• And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • You
  • Give
  • Steak

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Science
  • Black

• I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Scared

• No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

  

  Karl Marx

• We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.

  

  P. D. James
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Die

• He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Guitar
  • Superstar
  • Skater

• I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

  

  James Frey

• Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

  

  Pete Ploszek
  • Game
  • Career
  • Dream

• Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Music
  • Space

• I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • People
  • Think
  • Worry

• Once in a while, you'll get somebody who watched 'One Tree Hill' and 'Supernatural,' but by and large, whoever watches one show is very distinct. There's not a lot of crossover. It's like, 'This is my show, and I love this show. I know everything about this show. My show is my show, and it will be until I die.'

  

  Lindsey McKeon
  • Die
  • Tree
  • Supernatural

• I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez