Marcy Kaptur Quotes

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

Marcy Kaptur

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AmericaOwnIncreasingly

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

LifePeopleMy LifeDoingPoorBeen

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

Andrea Arnold

PeopleNobodyHeightsSayNailsLot

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

Robert J. Sawyer

BlackUniverseYouFallGoneHole

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

Jeannette Walls

PeopleMeStoryLikeWorried

It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.

Shirley Manson

PositiveBalancePeopleThoughtsYou

The most powerful thing in politics is voter-to-voter contact. People take in ideas and formulate opinions by contact with other people they perceive to be trustworthy - other voters, people from their communities.

Tom Steyer

PoliticsPeopleIdeasPowerfulTake

The House of Marley started with the concept of working together for a better world.

Rohan Marley

Working TogetherTogetherWorldHouse

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

SimpleBookMotivationViewEasy

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

Josh Turner

TodayTimeWritingYouPersonal

My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing.

Dianne Reeves

MusicTeacherTimeShoesPoetry

Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.

Claudio Ranieri

PressureDownGoUp

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Arthur Henderson

WarWorldKindWithoutBuyingWage

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