Carol Moseley Braun Quotes
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.
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There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
