Barbara Mikulski Quotes

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Barbara Mikulski

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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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• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

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• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

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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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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

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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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• Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

  

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• Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

  

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• We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

  

  Kim Elizabeth
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• The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.

  

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• Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

  

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• I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

  

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• [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Woman