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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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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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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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day.
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The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
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I grew up poor.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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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.
