Barbara Mikulski Quotes
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.
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I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts.
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There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
