Maria Shriver Quotes
If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
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If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
