Donna Shalala Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.
