Christine Pelosi Quotes

My parents had five children in six years and one week, meaning that my mom was pregnant for most of the '60s and driving carpools for most of the '70s. When we were young, she dressed us alike so she could pick us out in crowds: identical skirts for the four girls with the color-coordinated pants for my brother.

Christine Pelosi

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At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

Jerry West

GoodTimeManTeamEnoughYou

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

John Burroughs

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Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

John Quelch

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Socrates

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As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.

Simon Conway Morris

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I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Russell Tovey

ThinkMoreThanI ThinkMetFrank

I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'

Michael Paterniti

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I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

Missy Franklin

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My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

Jasper Carrott

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Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Christine Pelosi

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I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Conor Oberst

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I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.

Chuck Liddell

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