Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
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• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
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• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
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• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
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• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.

  

  Paige Butcher
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• It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
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  • Special
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• I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

  

  Alix Smith
  • People
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  • Perception

• Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

  

  Pope Francis

• The feeling of revolt will grow stronger every day among the peoples subjected to various degrees of exploitation, and they will take up arms to gain by force the rights which reason alone has not won them.

  

  Che Guevara
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• I'm older now, and I been through that, like, 'Stop. Tell the truth, what I need to do?' And I think that's important, as far as artist, for me to stand for what I believe in, And a lot of times people don't like that, you know what I'm saying. You become a troubled artist, or, 'You don't listen,' but as long as I say 'Yeah, I'll do it!' I'm a good person.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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• I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

  

  Dawn Angelique
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  • Important
  • Whole

• It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Fighting