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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].
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Music was sort of my thing at first.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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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.
