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Ayanna Pressley Quotes

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

Ayanna Pressley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1974

Topics

Safety Bicycle Need Increase Brings

I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

People Town I Came Maybe Came

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Nature Strength Beauty Health Soul

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

Love People Stand I Can Smell Room

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Game Fall Play Sometimes Suffer

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.

Great Performance American Emotions

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

Man Me Black Looks More Doll

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Humor Suffering Me Saying Laugh You

I used to stay up all night, roam around, drink, and carry on like everybody else. That all changed when I got older, started to exercise and play golf. I knew by the time the day was over I would not feel like exercising, so I made it a point to exercise early.

Time Day Night Golf Exercise Early

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

Fear People Giving Talking Week Shy

I think Seattle has a great sort of luxury and comfort sensibility, which I oftentimes think is lost in fashion for fashion's sake.

Great Fashion Think Luxury Comfort

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Humor World Look Find Ability Gone

I always had trouble being proud of how they were using me in WCW. It was hard for me to be interested in what they were doing, and what they were doing with me was pretty pathetic.

Me Proud Doing Trouble Hard Always

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