Desiree Rogers Quotes
As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.
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The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.
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There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
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When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.
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Be prepared and be honest.
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As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
