Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
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Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
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I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
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The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
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If my children want to pursue their dreams, I will always support them.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
