Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • inspirational
  • Performance

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Mind
  • Military
  • Dead

• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Performance

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Baby
  • Last
  • Firefighters

• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Business
  • Relationship

• The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • See
  • System

• Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Character
  • Mad

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Money
  • Control
  • System

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Up
  • Respect

• Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

  

  Picabo Street
  • She
  • House
  • Friend

• I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People

• At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • People
  • Trying
  • Together