Barbara Mikulski Quotes
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
