Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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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?
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My dad's paternal grandparents were musically inclined. And I remember as a little kid going to visit them in their senior building, and they were, like, the stars of the building, especially hosting and performing in their senior talent show.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.
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Two children die. An accident and a suicide amongst so many murders. A chance death and a death of self-recrimination. Smut and the Skipping Girl have been aping their parents and elders - perhaps they could now teach them a lesson - all the machinations and game-playing and adjusting for sexual and emotional positioning is not worth the effort.
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Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
