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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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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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 don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
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Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.
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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
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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.