Linda Chavez Quotes

If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • American
  • Guy

• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Children
  • Man
  • Small

• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Want

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Know

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • She
  • Decision
  • Fate

• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • People
  • Blind
  • Quiet

• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Amazing
  • Ability
  • Turn

• We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him. Our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • God
  • Book
  • Nature

• We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women