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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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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Something is guiding my career; I don't know what it is. When I look back at my career, I call myself the most lucky actor in the world. It is all I have ever done. I do master classes, and I tell people not to use me as an example. I do not know anyone like me - not to brag - it is just very unusual.
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Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.
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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.
