Chellie Pingree Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy... everything has a place. It's kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.
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I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
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Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.
