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Nancy Pelosi Quotes

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1940

Topics

History Tradition Congress Washington

Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.

Jennifer Johnston

Past Writing Back Go Three Will

I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.

Life Literature Dangerous More Real

He is not like Ron Swanson at all because he's very emotional and vulnerable. He is all of the things that I guess Ron was really deep down. He's not a Libertarian, but he does like bacon and meat.

Deep Down Meat Emotional Bacon Like

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

Life Love Best World My Life Know

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

Positive Sports Best Negative Early

It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.

Life Time Cute Me Small Long

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

Love Romantic Think Better Feelings

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

Mika Brzezinski

Live Job Sleep Thinking Giving You

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

Life Good Music Ugly People Me

To have 'In The Heights' be my first show in New York after moving here, I remember feeling at the time like, you know, 'It doesn't get any better than this.'

Time New York Moving Better Remember

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

Jason Calacanis

Light People Rich You Why Reason

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

Father Mother Born India Australia

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