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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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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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.
