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Nina Easton Quotes

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

Nina Easton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1958

Topics

Environmental Plan Labor Standards

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

Jesse Kellerman

Parents Me Growing Up Legacy Growing

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

Robert Rauschenberg

Painting Enough Possibilities Find

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

Tom Perrotta

Wife New York City Thought New She

The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

Tom Steyer

You Quotation Never Human Always

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

Roger McGuinn

Road You Rise Meet Open May

Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.

Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry Long Way Remembered Means

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

Rutina Wesley

Good Look Big Like Machine Diesel

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

Monica Bellucci

Time War Suffering Face Someone You

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

Michael McCaul

Human Real Rights Human Rights China

Cheer for your teammates, regardless of whether they're fast or slow, veteran or neophyte, varsity or JV. Or rally the spirits of someone who's had a bad performance. Also, encourage stragglers during tough workouts; jog back to 'pick up' a runner who's behind during a long run.

Don Kardong

Performance Tough Slow Someone Bad

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

Diane Lane

Relationship Aging Trying You Play

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Dawn Powell

Life Nature Better Peaceful Quiet