Maxine Waters Quotes

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

Maxine Waters

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And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

Jim Valvano

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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I just want to work.

Maye Musk

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I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

Maurice Sendak

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I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

Jeff Lynne

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I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help.

Troian Bellisario

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The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

Tom Jenkinson

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Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

Mary Gordon

MomentMeFeelLoseEverythingOut

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

Michel Faber

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For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

Mona Eltahawy

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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

Louis Theroux

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I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

Brian Clough

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