Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Color

• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Nobody

• When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Need
  • Back
  • Drop

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Husband
  • Worried
  • Jealous

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Humble

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Want
  • Dad
  • Mom

• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Done
  • Space
  • Three

• I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • Like

• I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Family
  • Football
  • Now

• Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mind
  • Moments

• Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her - than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature

• Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Long

• They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,Creeping with little satchels down the street,And they remember, many years ago,Passing that way in silks. They wander, slowAnd solitary, through the city ways,And they alone remember those old daysMen have forgotten.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Remember
  • City
  • Alone

• The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Rock
  • Ego

• That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.

  

  Judy Parfitt
  • Conversation
  • Sharing
  • Dementia

• We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Hate

• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • People
  • Life

• Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Breathe

• The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand