Jeanne Shaheen Quotes
When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids and serve in office. And that was never an issue when I ran.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'
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My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?
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Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.
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The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
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It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids and serve in office. And that was never an issue when I ran.
