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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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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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.
