Barbara Boxer Quotes
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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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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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
