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Christine Pelosi Quotes

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christine Pelosi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1966

Topics

Beauty Power Value Equality Chance

I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

Jesmyn Ward

Work I Am People Me Growing Up Feel

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

Skeet Ulrich

School High School Go High Prom

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Steve Yzerman

History Red Wings Detroit NHL Few

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

Light Magic Touch Profound Working

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

Robert Creeley

Friend Time River Story Move On See

I would say my fraternity was nothing but a bunch of farm boys; we weren't really in the whole fraternity scene, but yeah, that's a safe assessment of who I am. I've lived that life, growing up in agriculture and then going off to college and joining a fraternity, livin' that life.

Luke Bryan

Life I Am College Growing Up Farm

Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people.

Jordan Peele

People I Can Dead See Little Well

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

Dee Dee Myers

Alone Win Drive Game Care Political

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

Chris Abani

Father Educated University Cork

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Clint Eastwood

Best Long You Want Quit Ring

The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.

Pim Fortuyn

Small End Stop Living Land Stream

The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to ideas that make life here better.

Thomas Heatherwick

Life Hope Moment Day Ideas Bridge