Barbara Mikulski Quotes
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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Anybody who should be deported, we should deport them.
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I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
