Barbara Boxer Quotes
The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
