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.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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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.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
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I have two brothers, and one of them plays the guitar. I actually started playing the guitar because of him. Both of my brothers are 12 years older than me, so I thought they were really cool, and I just wanted to be really cool like them.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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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.
