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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People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy.
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Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.
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It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
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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.
