Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Love, and do what you like.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
