Danielle Dax Quotes
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Get to the point where the songs sum it all up, and creatively, I'm just like, 'This is it.' I've also learned how to be patient and not really try to overproduce anymore. I used to add instruments, keep adding instruments, but nowadays - I know better now. I know how to let the track breathe.
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A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.
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I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
