Ayanna Pressley Quotes

I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.

Ayanna Pressley

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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

John O. Brennan

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I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

Jeff Sessions

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I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

Siobhan Fahey

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I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Robert De Niro

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When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Marya Hornbacher

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I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.

Mike Coffman

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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Mo Yan

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I'm up before 6, but then I'm parked in front of the PC until noon.

Lori Foster

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I don't like Philly. I don't care at all about Philly.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

Jonathan Nolan

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I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.

Devon Bostick

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I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

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