Barbara Mikulski Quotes
The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
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Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.
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I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
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I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
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The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
