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.Barbara Lee
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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.
Oren Peli -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso -
There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
Marat Safin -
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
J. D. Souther -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch -
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone -
It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
Vijay Mallya -
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes
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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.
Ira Glass -
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Edmund H. North -
I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Paloma Elsesser -
I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
Natalie Cole
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I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.
Angie Martinez -
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Brigitte Bardot -
I've learned stuff, and I've forgotten stuff, but what I do know is that it really is all about the fans.
Paolo Nutini -
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music -
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.
Barbara Lee