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.

Dana Perino

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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.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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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.'

  

  Jack Lowden
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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.

  

  Natasha Richardson
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• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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  • Dawn

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

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  • Political
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• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

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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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• One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

  

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• I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

  

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• In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

  

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• The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

  

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• I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

  

  Christopher Buckley
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  • Kids
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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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Dad
  • Read
  • Dinner