Barbara Mikulski Quotes
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things.
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
