Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes
The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
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When, over lunch in Philadelphia, I ask the distinguished University of Pennsylvania historian, Alan Charles Kors about Cultural Studies, he shakes his head in dismay. "Cultural Studies," he laments, "is now dominant in all departments of literature and is increasingly big in history, sociology, and cultural anthropology, though less so in political science." His own capsule definition of Cultural Studies? "It sees culture as a means of assigning roles, power, obedience, and resources—and examines the way in which culture accomplishes that.
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The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.
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For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
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The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.
