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Geraldine Ferraro was undergoing one of the worst ordeals of a media age-trial by disclosure.
WALTER SHAPIRO One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
CHELLIE PINGREE What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress,
CARL ALBERT I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.
GERALDINE FERRARO But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS I'm an old trial lawyer.
PATRICK LEAHY And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. An...
SCOTT BAKULA I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happ...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a la...
BENICIO DEL TORO I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as oppos...
SAM SHEPPARD The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was conce...
GERALDINE FERRARO I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
MARIO CUOMO Alan was a great football player, but he would never have been elected to the Minnesota Supreme Cour...
BILL HILLSMAN I've known him for eight years, ... He's a fighter. He fought this trial. He didn't get a lawyer whe...
STEVEN LATOURETTE I've never met John Roberts personally, although he was a young lawyer on President Reagan's staff a...
MICHAEL OXLEY When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even ...
JIMMY CARTER I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON He was an excellent trial lawyer, loved criminal practice and pretty much tried to concentrate on th...
MARSHALL CARLISLE My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most ...
JILL LEPORE You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
GERALDINE A. FERRARO The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper
GERALDINE A. FERRARO I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad na...
GERALDINE A. FERRARO It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders...
GERALDINE A. FERRARO Modern life is confusing - no "Ms take" about it.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause bu...
ROBIN S. SHARMA I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could ge...
ROBERT SHAPIRO I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that...
VANILLA ICE When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on pu...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed the...
NELSON MANDELA To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD I was born with a fierce need for independence.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON Beirut is where I was born and raised.
REEM ACRA I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. PAUL GETTY I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
STEVEN SEAGAL I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
CHARLES OLSON I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING I was denied my right to a speedy trial.
PATRICK BOOTH When I first got elected, I was an unknown person from Janesville, Wisconsin. I'm not wealthy and I ...
PAUL RYAN I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
DAN MAFFEI When I was first elected to the House in 2006, it was important to me to send a clear message to the...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a la...
CHRISTINE QUINN Arlen went on to be a really wonderful trial lawyer, yet I never tried a case in front of a jury aga...
GEORGE FREEMAN Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
“Oh,” s...
DIANE HALL I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday,
LINUS TORVALDS I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of rese...
GERALDINE FERRARO We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
GERALDINE FERRARO The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren...
GERALDINE FERRARO They went into the basement, they went on the roof, they went upstairs to the second floor. We allow...
GERALDINE FERRARO If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, b...
GERALDINE FERRARO No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread, ... That has made it t...
GERALDINE FERRARO Let me say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that ...
GERALDINE FERRARO I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas,
GERALDINE FERRARO When you're talking about Hillary Clinton, it's not as if she's living in a different country,
GERALDINE FERRARO No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread. That has made it tough...
GERALDINE FERRARO I think they went in as much to eliminate any evidence as to search for anything in particular.
GERALDINE FERRARO Some of the stuff we dealt with was just ridiculous.
GERALDINE FERRARO going to be able to lobby (President Clinton) in a way that no other person could possibly lobby the...
GERALDINE FERRARO I went from being a kid who lost her father [at age 8] and who lived in the South Bronx to almost go...
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I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of rese...
GERALDINE FERRARO We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
GERALDINE FERRARO The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren...
GERALDINE FERRARO The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.
GERALDINE FERRARO And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was conce...
GERALDINE FERRARO They went into the basement, they went on the roof, they went upstairs to the second floor. We allow...
GERALDINE FERRARO If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, b...
GERALDINE FERRARO No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread, ... That has made it t...
GERALDINE FERRARO Let me say, first of all, that I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that ...
GERALDINE FERRARO I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas,
GERALDINE FERRARO When you're talking about Hillary Clinton, it's not as if she's living in a different country,
GERALDINE FERRARO No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread. That has made it tough...
GERALDINE FERRARO I think they went in as much to eliminate any evidence as to search for anything in particular.
GERALDINE FERRARO Some of the stuff we dealt with was just ridiculous.
GERALDINE FERRARO going to be able to lobby (President Clinton) in a way that no other person could possibly lobby the...
GERALDINE FERRARO I went from being a kid who lost her father [at age 8] and who lived in the South Bronx to almost go...
GERALDINE FERRARO When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and sa...
GERALDINE FERRARO President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
GERALDINE FERRARO I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need ...
GERALDINE FERRARO I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors ...
GERALDINE FERRARO You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
GERALDINE A. FERRARO The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper
GERALDINE A. FERRARO I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad na...
GERALDINE A. FERRARO It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders...
GERALDINE A. FERRARO Modern life is confusing - no "Ms take" about it.
GERALDINE A. FERRARO We don't know what our future holds. We must work at least five more years. We haven't done intervie...
BARBARA FERRARO This organization is grounded in this community, born here, and we hope it will continue.
BARBARA FERRARO We feel assured the mission and the original vision can continue without us. We are leaving when thi...
BARBARA FERRARO Maryland is on the verge of enacting legislation that will ensure transparent elections that voters ...
BOB FERRARO They did not study an optical scan system, which most places in the country use, which have been use...
BOB FERRARO The council was not the least in favor of it. We just don't need another golf course. We've certainl...
BOB FERRARO When you see a hot-air balloon going by, you immediately turn and look in awe. No matter what you're...
FRANK FERRARO Playing half-court defense doesn't mean you can't be aggressive. We proved that. Every loose ball in...
FRANK FERRARO What happened is, we got out of our pressure defense. In the first half, we were playing defense for...
FRANK FERRARO Toward the end of February the weather is usually ideal. It's a beautiful time as far as the winds g...
FRANK FERRARO People will be able to go and talk to the pilots and maybe get a tethered ride, just go maybe 50 to ...
FRANK FERRARO Let's give credit to him. He's an outstanding player.
FRANK FERRARO We played well defensively after the first five minutes, and we converted the power play well. We go...
JAY FERRARO They were flying tonight. We played well in spurts, but we were overmatched. They were the best team...
JAY FERRARO Coach McGovern and I got together and said it would be great to play. I think it's good that the sch...
JAY FERRARO That was the best we've played all season. We were physical, we moved the puck and we played a defen...
JAY FERRARO Paul is our best player. He can score and he can distribute the ball. He plays top-notch midfielder ...
JACK FERRARO He's well over 6-foot, and is very athletic and very smart. He wants to go to the University of Chic...
JACK FERRARO We're a team that beats you 1-0 and 2-0. We're not a very high-scoring team. We pride ourselves on o...
JACK FERRARO When we're 25 yards away from the goal, we have to score. I can't tell you how many times we had sco...
JACK FERRARO I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-ti...
JACK FERRARO We did not end the season on a positive note. But, as always, we have high expectations. We have a l...
JACK FERRARO Our defense prides itself on playing tough every time out. Right now, I have nothing to complain abo...
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GERALDINE BROOKS I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in ...
GERALDINE BROOKS I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been readi...
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GERALDINE BROOKS The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is k...
GERALDINE BROOKS My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly co...
GERALDINE BROOKS I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa...
GERALDINE BROOKS There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that wh...
GERALDINE BROOKS There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
GERALDINE JEWSBURY You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, dri...
GERALDINE BROOKS I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catast...
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GERALDINE BROOKS If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen s...
GERALDINE BROOKS Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to t...
GERALDINE BROOKS I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was...
GERALDINE BROOKS I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
GERALDINE BROOKS When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on...
GERALDINE CHAPLIN When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to sto...
GERALDINE BROOKS [Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle o...
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because...
GERALDINE BROOKS I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.
GERALDINE MCEWAN For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.
GERALDINE BROOKS If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all...
GERALDINE BROOKS Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Ci...
GERALDINE BROOKS It's like being struck by lightning.
GERALDINE BROOKS I have no big plans. I think I might have to make some, and they might have to involve some champagn...
GERALDINE BROOKS I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this h...
GERALDINE BROOKS This isn't a book about war, but about the strength of ideas that drive people to extreme action.
GERALDINE BROOKS That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.
GERALDINE BROOKS I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a w...
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win ...
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one...
GERALDINE BROOKS May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rou...
GERALDINE SOLON Some of these fine days I swear I'll throw away all my heavy luggage in the shape of hopes, and expe...
GERALDINE JEWSBURY A franchise in Mexico, it's not a priority for the short or medium term. It's not so viable.
GERALDINE GONZALEZ If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for pover...
GERALDINE BROOKS If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't ...
GERALDINE BROOKS You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
GERALDINE SOLON A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.
GERALDINE SOLON It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation ...
GERALDINE BROOKS At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I a...
GERALDINE BROOKS I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to dema...
GERALDINE BROOKS Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens...
GERALDINE BROOKS I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode t...
GERALDINE BROOKS As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with mili...
GERALDINE BROOKS I wept my way through teaching practice.
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an in...
GERALDINE BROOKS I love the Oscars. All sorts of tacky people win. And watching everyone run up and down those aisles...
GERALDINE PAGE I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.
GERALDINE CHAPLIN For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, i...
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GERALDINE CHAPLIN If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no ma...
GERALDINE PAGE The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawne...
GERALDINE STUTZ Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and m...
GERALDINE BROOKS I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.
GERALDINE CHAPLIN I was interested in idealists who go to war and what happens to them.
GERALDINE BROOKS Being here has been incredibly enriching.
GERALDINE BROOKS There are a number of communities in the United States that have raised their hands and said, 'We ar...
GERALDINE GONZALEZ It was being done at the lower levels within the agency.
GERALDINE CONRAD People are eligible for disaster assistance if they are not eligible for regular unemployment benefi...
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GERALDINE CONRAD Domestic data is not having a whole lot of impact at the moment.
GERALDINE CONCAGH She is usually perceived as a dove and bearing that in mind I think her remarks come across as quite...
GERALDINE CONCAGH Both the earnings and the claimant count data are stronger than expected. But I think any reaction t...
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GERALDINE JENSEN There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event
GERALDINE JEWSBURY It was like a Japanese ball player being invited to play first base for the Yankees.
GERALDINE KIDSTON I guess he got into what we now call designer drugs.
GERALDINE KIDSTON The industry is taking steps on both the energy efficiency and clean-energy fronts -- there are plen...
GERALDINE LINK Skiing and snowboarding are sports of freedom.
GERALDINE LINK I think the Sustainable Slopes Day had run its course after five years.
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GERALDINE KNATZ It was a dreaded fact when they (telegram couriers) rang a neighbor's doorbell. My mother dreaded th...
GERALDINE MILLS I clean forgot Barrie's ghost might be reading the computer screen over my shoulder -- forgot to wor...
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN [It is an] astonishingly daunting privilege.
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN It wasn't just a black thing. It was a unity thing.
GERALDINE WEST He came to Savannah many times walking these same streets with the marching and I've seen him severa...
GERALDINE WEST I'm feeling pride and honor in this parade. It brings back so many memories, lot of memories.
GERALDINE WEST Somebody has to do explain why, and they have to do something about these abandoned homes. Why? They...
GERALDINE THIEDE One my house there?s no damage. No damage to my house, inside.
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GERALDINE MILLS I didn't know what I was going into. It was interesting. It was nice. It was dark!
GERALDINE WILDE She said 'You don't need an education to raise a family.'
GERALDINE WILDE I wanted to put together a show with a relatively small number of works, to show the work of three a...
GERALDINE BARLOW A lot of artists feel passionately about what's occurring in the world and they become interested in...
GERALDINE BARLOW You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind y...
GERALDINE BROOKS When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if the...
GERALDINE BROOKS Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devo...
GERALDINE BROOKS To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
GERALDINE BROOKS I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much l...
GERALDINE BROOKS When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is v...
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