Donna Shalala Quotes
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives.
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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.
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We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.
