Barbara Boxer Quotes

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

Barbara Boxer

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TrustPeopleDeepStandSomeoneYou

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

Andrea Arnold

TimeSleepRememberYouChristmas

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

Summer Phoenix

GoodMeAmbitionCareerPersonKnow

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

Sonny Bono

I AmBlackFeelSheepCongressKind

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Robert Webb

TruthBadMoreFollowKidEmotional

My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine!

Jonathan Knight

LifeLiveYouBeliefExampleYour

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

Joseph Lancaster

LearningGoodGreatSocietyMorals

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.

Claire Denis

LiveHistoryThoughtStrongerPlace

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

Arto Lindsay

FriendsPlayBandMarsUsedHad

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

EducationFaithGovernmentWorldUp

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Peter Weir

ArtThinkKnowSilentMoreSound

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

Marianne Williamson

MoveHeartsOnlyIndividualsArmies

I try to sleep as much as I can. I drink a lot of water. I practice consistently and just try to be ready for the gig.

Kurt Elling

WaterSleepPracticeI CanReady

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