Donna Shalala Quotes
By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
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I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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It is interesting: in France, the horror films are not so popular. People go to see them, but not for the same reason. It is more artistic and process.
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Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
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By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.