Donna Shalala Quotes
Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.
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Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
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Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.
