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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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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.

  

  Dan Savage
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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.

  

  Damian Marley
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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
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• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
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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.'

  

  FKA twigs
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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.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

  

  Pat Toomey
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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.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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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.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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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.

  

  Walter Pater
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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.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

  

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• Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

  

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• In politics, guts is all.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Politics
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• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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• I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
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