Barbara Mikulski Quotes
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
