Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
