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Barbara Mikulski
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BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ... BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit... BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ... BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time. BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ... BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer. BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ... BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr... BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... 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BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... 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BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca... BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music. BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am. BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu... BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h... BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h... BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w... BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years. BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. 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BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi... BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ... BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors... BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people. BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca... BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues. BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin... BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I... BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per... BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life. BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'... BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi... BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against... BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop... BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei... BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds... BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi... BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages... BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what... BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere... BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ... BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER