Sheila Quotes

• I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Queens, Demand, Treated

  "The Diddly Awards: Honoring Our Do-Nothing Congress" by Jack Hitt, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2000.

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• You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

  Sheila Walsh

  Bridges, People, Deep Thought

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• Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Two, Vietnam, Today

  "Sheila Jackson Lee says there are two Vietnams: North and South" by Ciara O'Rourke, www.politifact.com. July 21, 2010.

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• You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Motivational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Rights, Two, Looks

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• You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the type of show I am giving. I could pull references from Broadway musicals, Rock Steady Crew, a Jamaican dancehall or gentlemen's club, etc. all within one show. It truly is a playground with no restrictions for me.

  Mya

  Summer, Vanity, Rocks

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• My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

  Dan Chaon

  Wife, Reader, Havens

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

  Gayle King

  Black, Hug, Lucky

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• You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro.

  Steven Pinker

  Dog, Zebras, People

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• I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.

  Jill Scott

  Dream, People, Mentor

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• There were other stories and other names. Second Base Stace, who had breasts in fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. Vincent, who took acid and tried to flush a sofa down the toilet. Sheila, who allegedly masturbated with a hot dog and had to go to the emergency room. The list went on and on.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Dog, Boys, Names

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

  Glen Duncan

  Cancer, Years, Ifs And

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Children, Liars

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