Barbara Lee Quotes
The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.
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For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
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Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
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Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
