Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

Jennifer Pahlka

Recitation: by Male by Female

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NeighborOurStrengthenCommunities

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Jeff Bezos

GoodInnovationGoldOpportunities

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

Michael Arad

MirrorLightWayOthersAnglesOff

As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.

John T. Chambers

TogetherTrainingCountryVeterans

Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

Stephanie Coontz

HomeChildrenParentsPeopleSociety

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Sophocles

CheatTreatyEverImpediment

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

Simon Helberg

PeopleAmericaYouSayFirstThing

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Robert Burton

Old FriendsSmallFriendsBecomeOld

There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.

Lori Foster

ChildrenHeroWriteFirstThings

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.

Lisa Guerrero

JobMeOutGotThrillFound

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Anthony Hopkins

LazinessCookiesWeakOhSpotSpots

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Alice Dreger

WillMeanLiarsMayUsExist

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Phoebe Snow

WomanAliveGreatestBeingGuitarist

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