Patsy Mink Quotes

#1. Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Colleen Hanabusa

#2. I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!

Sophie Thompson

#3. It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.

Patsy Mink

#4. Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

Dan Pearce

#5. Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Peter Norvig

#6. I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.

Emo Philips

#8. The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

Patsy Mink

#9. There's just one advice for an aspiring writer; write.

Sci Furz

#10. I broke things to get attention.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#11. Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

Adelaide Anne Procter

#12. From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

Susie Orbach

#13. In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it. The

Stephen Hawking

#14. We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

Patsy Mink