Wendy Davis Quotes

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Color
  • Blind

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Voice
  • Organization
  • Research

• I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Country
  • Experience

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • World
  • Rest
  • Thread

• By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Happy
  • Political
  • Question

• My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Past
  • Change

• I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • Writing

• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Good
  • Education
  • Leader