Donna Shalala Quotes
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
