Nancy Pelosi Quotes

Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

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• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

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• Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

  

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• Second place is just the first place loser.

  

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

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• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  

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• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  

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• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

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• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

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• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

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• When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

  

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  

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• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

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• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

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• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

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• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

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• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

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• We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

  

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• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind