Donna Brazile Quotes
We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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My record speaks for itself.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
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I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
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'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
