Barbara Mikulski Quotes
What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I'm easily entertained.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
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I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.
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People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
