Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.
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You've got to keep an open mind.
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George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked.
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I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of the houses and beating down the steps. The Sun was drumming time into the stone. The sun was rhythming the day. (p. 197)
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I don't like having people do little things for me.
