Ayanna Pressley Quotes

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

Ayanna Pressley

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The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

Jermain Defoe

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In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.

John Dickerson

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Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

John Corbett

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

Steve Buyer

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Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.

Judith Viorst

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Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.

Jon Gruden

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When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

Johnny Depp

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I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

Douglas Coupland

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I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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My family, as you can probably guess, was more into Christmas cookies and not so much the fruitcake.

Christina Tosi

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'Bloodless' reminded me a bit of 'Les Miserables' when it first came out.

Colm Wilkinson

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