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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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.
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Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.
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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.
