Desiree Rogers Quotes
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.
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I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.
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I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.
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Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well.
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I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
