"When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!"

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Source : "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#Opportunity Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.”

Source : Mary Tyler Moore (2009). “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes”, p.11, Macmillan
“I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.”
“He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.”
“There's one thing that I know about myself, I could wash dishes and be happy.”
“I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 26, 2008.
“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”

Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.
“Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.”
“I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.”

Source : "New Again: Tim Curry". Interview with Susan Pile, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2015.

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