Dana Perino Quotes
Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
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Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of use out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my little Atari.
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From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
