Nancy Pelosi Quotes
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Quotes to Explore
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
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I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are.
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I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
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I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
