Dina Powell Quotes

Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Women
  • Education
  • Best

• I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Job
  • Lucky

• There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Identity

• The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Beauty
  • Fairness

• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Country
  • Together

• I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Risk

• Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

  

  Lactantius
  • Always
  • Sex
  • Need

• I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • School
  • Done

• If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Model

• Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Education
  • Gift

• Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Children
  • Religious

• Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

  

  John Muir
  • Up

• Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Music
  • Lyric

• No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Career
  • Dog

• Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize.

  

  David Hepworth
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.

  

  Dina Powell