Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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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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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
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Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
