Barbara Mikulski Quotes
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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But I think we need the international market.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
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The BB house works as a kind of twat amplifier, you see. Once harnessed within, someone who in normal life would merely strike me as a bit of a git quickly swells in negative stature, eventually coming to symbolise everything I hate about our cruel and godless universe.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
