Barbara Mikulski Quotes
His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.
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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.
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I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.
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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
