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Jennifer Palmieri Quotes

My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.

Jennifer Palmieri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american

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Work Mom Proud She Republican Over

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Robert Plant

Great Time Great Time Goldfish Bowl

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

Travel Now Leaving Land Without Up

You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable.

John Sarbanes

People Democracy Think You Way Keep

When society starts moving in a way that becomes very negative, whether it's in the West or any other place, I've always found that it's very useful to have people around who actually know what's happening.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

People Moving Society Negative Place

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

Steven Soderbergh

Mind Cinema Movies Seen Fine Venue

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Robert Fortune

Water Roots Done Same Branches May

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

Matisyahu

Music Time Me Voice Long Emotions

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

Miranda Kerr

Young Tall Compete Used Wanted Then

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

School New York Basketball New High

I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything.

Little Simz

Good People Saying You Sometimes

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

David Suzuki

Change Environmental Year Changes

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.

Chellie Pingree

Politics School Lawyer Story Talk