Donna Shalala Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
-
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
-
While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
-
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
-
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
-
I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
-
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
-
Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
-
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
-
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
-
I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
-
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
-
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-
The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
-
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
-
Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
-
The last 200 years, we've had an incredible amount of automation. We have tractors that do the work that horses and people used to do on farms. We don't dig ditches by hand anymore. We don't pound tools out of wrought iron. We don't do bookkeeping with books! But this has not, in net, reduced the amount of employment.
-
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
-
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
-
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
-
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
