Lisa Murkowski Quotes
I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.
Quotes to Explore
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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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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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
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The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
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I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.
