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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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
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I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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.
