Ayanna Pressley Quotes

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

Ayanna Pressley

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CommunityServiceBuildingOrganizing

This is a great country, and it's a melting pot. People shouldn't judge other people by the color of their skin, their church, or the area where they reside.

Jesse White

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I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.

John Battelle

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The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.

Andrea Hirata

FriendDecisionSpaceMeBuilding

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

ChangeTimeYourselfYouSayAlways

Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.

Michael Greger

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Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

Michael Douglas

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I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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Since Sabu was the first guy that I was in the ring with professionally, we have the longest history in my career, and also, we were like minded.

Rob Van Dam

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You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

Rufus Wainwright

AgeYourselfFeelYouRewardNeed

Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

Roseanne Barr

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Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

Luis Suarez

MindThinkingBetterInjuriesYou

We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use.

Dianne Feinstein

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