Nancy Pelosi Quotes
They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
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I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.
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End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)
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I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.
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They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
