Wendy Davis Quotes

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

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• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Me
  • Decision

• Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Home
  • Away

• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Want
  • Relationship

• When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Culture
  • Commitment

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • People
  • Women
  • Poverty

• There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I don't know that I understood that until I got into certain rooms, and people's faces go blank when you talk about Sundance.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • World
  • Independent

• I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Religious

• When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

  

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