Dana Perino Quotes
I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.
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A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.
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Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
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I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
