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 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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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
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Your company is a product. Who are its customers? Your employees, who use it to do their jobs.
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Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
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As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
