Donna Brazile Quotes

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Jump
  • Down

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • News

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Cool

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Trying
  • America

• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Best

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Laugh

• Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • More
  • Research

• You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Soul

• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Luck

• The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Help
  • Death

• Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Men
  • May
  • Home

• Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • True
  • Value

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • May
  • Job

• When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• My sisters take, like, hours to get ready, and I'm, like, really quick. I think I get that from my dad.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Dad

• Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Actors

• She wishes them not luck or money; they will have both, as much as they want, or is necessary. Instead she wishes them fearlessness in all things: in love, yes, but also in work, in expectation, in the leap from the high rocks, in looking back, and in forgetting.

  

  Christopher Castellani
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Sadness

• My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

  

  Donna Brazile