Rebecca Traister Quotes

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

Rebecca Traister

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The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

John Cornwell

WorldPoliticalEnvironmentPoverty

I'm good with a script.

Mayim Bialik

GoodScript

We have a failed state in Syria.

Michael McCaul

StateSyriaFailed

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

Liz Phair

TogetherNew YorkPeopleVegasYou

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Liza Minnelli

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I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression of things that really have influenced and addressed your life.

Dianne Reeves

LifeGreatFoundationThinkYou

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Chris Van Allsburg

PersonalityWayTrySameMundane

I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

Brian Fallon

LoveLearnPaintWouldLikeStuff

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

Cicely Tyson

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A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Bob Dylan

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I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

Bruce Johnston

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I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.

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