Donna Shalala Quotes

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

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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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Long
  • Live
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• 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.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• 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.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • America
  • Army
  • Economy

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Industry

• Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Process
  • Filmmaking
  • Editing

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • God
  • Faith

• We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Solve

• I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • First
  • Old
  • Boston

• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Ideas
  • Beginning
  • Points

• I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Car

• I don't know why, anytime you see a car filled with people, it's either Middle Easterners or Mexicans. It's one of those two. Even for short trips, my dad would be like, 'Okay, everybody in the car.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Why
  • Dad

• Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

  

  Trevor Charles Horn Art of Noise
  • Artist
  • Authority
  • Producers

• The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Good
  • Great
  • Kids

• But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Car