Donna Shalala Quotes
The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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I don't care about revenues.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.
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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
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The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.
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If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
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In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
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The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
