I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.
I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.
I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.
. . . I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here. " He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Supporting war initially was a mistake.