Nancy Pelosi Quotes

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Nancy Pelosi

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Often

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Fun
  • Help
  • Gift

• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tom

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Money
  • Parents

• I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.

  

  Yuna
  • Book
  • Inspired
  • Keep

• For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Art
  • Enjoy
  • Confused

• I was always the weirdo at school.

  

  Karen Elson
  • School
  • Always
  • Weirdo

• My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Mom

• If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

  

  Cyril Smith
  • Politics
  • British
  • Strangle

• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Politics