Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes
The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'
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When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.
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The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.
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Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
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The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.
