"Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality."

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Source : Source: www.blogher.com

Eleanor Smeal

#Unique Quotes #Quality Quotes #Majority Quotes

“I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.”
“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”
“I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.”
“Itâ€™s the age of celebrity. Itâ€™s the age of social media. But for we old school girls who donâ€™t want to show up at every single event just â€˜causeÂ I donâ€™t tweetâ€“I have nothing to say. Iâ€™m not on Facebook.Â I mean it sounds like I have plenty to say, but thatâ€™s to people who Iâ€™m in a room with. Iâ€™m not that interesting, and the rest is none of your business.”
“I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.”
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.239, PublicAffairs
“You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.”

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