Julia Barr Quotes
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.
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I'm a good friend.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
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Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
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You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.
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No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.
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In my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of balancing work and family. And as more women have gone into the work force because they have to, and when you discriminate against a woman's pay you discriminate against her children or her husband or her significant other in terms of what the family income is.
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Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
