Sherwood Boehlert Quotes

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Sherwood Boehlert

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TimeLongMinimum WageJustWage

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Joan Didion

LifeMy OwnMoreOwnWouldLike

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

John Bates Clark

TouchSightOutWholeRawFinished

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

AttitudeRespectCallBecauseSubmit

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

MeGuitarNowBoyReasonFault

I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.

Lucky Blue Smith

GoodGirlPersonalityI AmFunYou

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

Dennis Kucinich

HealthPastFightI AmCareBetter

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

Bruce Willis

WorkGreatDayMeFriendsHelp

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Annalee Newitz

ScienceNameYouKnowRealFiction

I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.

Winnie Harlow

GoodFocusYourselfCelebrateThink

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

Paul Theroux

PatienceAloneFoodTravelI AmMe

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.

Ryan Cabrera

YourselfUniquenessHotBeingJust

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Martin Amis

MyselfTalentBodyGoRealParanoid

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