Maria Cantwell Quotes
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation.
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It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.
