Donna Brazile Quotes
As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
Quotes to Explore
-
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
-
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
-
When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
-
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
-
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
-
When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
-
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
-
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
-
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
-
It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
-
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
-
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
-
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
-
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
-
When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
-
In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
-
It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.
-
'Danger Girl' can be ridiculous, but sometimes it's funny.
-
Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover — somebody in your life who you love with all your heart, but that person is no longer with you. Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time follow the line all the way from B to E, and you’ll hear everything that Chopin had to say.
-
As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
