Pramila Jayapal Quotes

For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity.

Pramila Jayapal

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WomenOpportunityFreedomIdentity

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.

Jesse L. Martin

GoodTodayTimeBlessingStartYou

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Michael Gerber

LearningCuriosityFreeLetting Go

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Barr

MenTreatMakeJustLikeThemselves

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solomon Asch

FailureThinkingFactsMeaningLose

I had aquariums of bullfrogs and mudpuppies. My poor mom had to deal with me incubating chicken eggs in my bedroom.

Ronan Farrow

MeMomChickenPoorBedroomEggs

My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Romesh Gunesekera

LifeWomenBusinessParentsPeople

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

Dinesh D'Souza

RootsFreeCapitalismAmerican

We always have veggies, nuts, spreads, and fruits laying around the house.

Brooklyn Decker

HouseAlwaysNutsFruitsLaying

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Anthony Trollope

ManImportantNothingHimOwnHis

I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.

Anne-Marie Duff

WorkGoodQualityMeNightEgo

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer

SufferingSocialismLevelFunction

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

Richard Pryor

LifePeopleMeCrazyYouFind

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