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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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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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
