Nancy Keenan Quotes

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

Nancy Keenan

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• Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • First
  • Jump

• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Way
  • Understanding

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • America
  • Tomorrow
  • Stand

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Moral

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • House

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Country
  • Political
  • Support

• I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Stand

• Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Starvation
  • Famine

• I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • Want
  • Political

• Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

  

  John Spratt
  • Country
  • Running

• For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Good
  • God

• I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands' and phoned me up and said: 'What was that all about? He had scissors on his hands.' Good question. I think she should review films on Channel 4.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Courage