Barbara Lee Quotes
As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
 
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	I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.   
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	I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.   
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	Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.   
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	If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.   
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	There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.   
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	Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.   
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	I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.   
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	If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.   
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	Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.   
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	Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.   
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	I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.   
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	It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.   
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	The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.   
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	I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.   
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	Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?   
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	I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.   
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	The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.   
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	I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.   
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	In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.   
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	The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it   
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	I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.   
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	As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					