Barbara Mikulski Quotes
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
Quotes to Explore
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.
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Ann Curry: You know the American people are suffering watching -Mrs. Bush: Believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.
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I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.
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You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck.
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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
