Jackie Speier Quotes

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

Jackie Speier

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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Jess Walter

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I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

Andreja Pejic

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Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Mayim Bialik

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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.

Max von Sydow

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My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

Angus King

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Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

Louis Farrakhan

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I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.

Diego Godin

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Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.

Anohni

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The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Athol Fugard

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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

Peter Diamandis

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While we were there, we saw first-hand the senseless violence and destruction from terrorist groups that have repeatedly called for the end of Israel. These kinds of attacks are an unfortunate part of everyday life for the Israeli people.

Scott Garrett

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