Dana Perino Quotes
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.
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I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out.
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People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.
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Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
