Barbara Mikulski Quotes
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
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When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.
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Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
