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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Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
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17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.
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I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
