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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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My bed is actually two king beds put together.
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
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If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
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Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.
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I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
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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.
