Pramila Jayapal Quotes

For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.

Pramila Jayapal

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WomenDayFaceFightingFeelYou

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

JoBeth Williams

TexasConnectionEarthI Was Raised

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.

Melanie Griffith

LifeBusinessMyselfWeirdFeeling

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

Maya Angelou

DancePlacesYearsOperaDifferent

I loved growing up in Ohio.

John Lithgow

Growing UpLovedGrowingUpOhio

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

John Mayall

MemoriesTimeLookI CanWayDiary

I will be the first to admit that the sanctity of life and the preservation of religious freedom are not even among the top ten concerns of most voters. But those issues should be of primary importance to those who call themselves Christians.

Robert Jeffress

LifeFreedomAdmitWillFirstTop

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Tony Campolo

ReligionBetterAmericanElections

You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.

Tom McCall

StressYouKnowSpreadBringMay

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Michael Kennedy

FunSkiingWayMoreClimbingThan

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

JR

MyselfResponsibilityMeBrandPoint

I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.

Cory Monteith

FocusPeopleBadEdgeLostKind

I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.

Peter Billingsley

WorkGreatFunDoneLuckyPretty

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