Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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MotherWifeWomanIdentityThink

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Jim Webb

TogetherWarBabyWorldGeneration

Very few things are off-limits for me.

Jenny Mollen

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I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Steve Nash

SchoolHockeyVegasYouCardsPlay

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

FatherHomeChildrenDayOnlySix

One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time... around 1960 or so.

Roger McGuinn

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I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Joss Whedon

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In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

Jordan Peele

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I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

Douglas Brinkley

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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Davy Jones

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We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

Boris Johnson

WorldVoiceFindEarthEconomyOur

The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.

Asma Jahangir

HomeFaceBackIndiaSeriousHuman

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

William Law

ManSelfBeginSomethingDifferent

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