Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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• Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Food
  • Weakness
  • Mine

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Remember
  • Best

• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Basketball

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Man

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Want
  • Better

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Intent
  • Credible

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Right
  • Reasons

• Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

  

  Shakira
  • Women

• It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Injustice
  • Willing
  • Inconvenience

• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Peace
  • Focus
  • Balance

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Moral

• We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Christian
  • Prejudice
  • Defeat

• Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Moral
  • Champion