Carolyn Maloney (Carolyn Bosher Maloney) Quotes
I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I always forgive, but I never forget.
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These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.
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The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.
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I like a good pompadour.
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Seek truth from facts.
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There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
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I had difficulty working for other people.
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The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.
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As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
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Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.
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I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
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I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.
