Barbara Mikulski Quotes
My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.
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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
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The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
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If there's an energy between two people it doesn't matter what you look like or what you do for a living or where you live.
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If you are receiving this transmission, you are the resistance.
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
