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 believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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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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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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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.
