Donna Shalala Quotes

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

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• As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Experience
  • Presidential
  • Democrat

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Laws

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • God
  • True
  • Me

• The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Science
  • Like
  • Physics

• Free Tibet before free trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Before

• I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Think
  • Change
  • Politics

• It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Politics
  • Idea

• There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Reality

• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Time
  • Beginning

• You can be barefoot and have worries.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Liberty is the right not to lie.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Right
  • Liberty

• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • God
  • May

• When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

  

  Emily Chang
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Question

• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Thinking
  • Quiet

• We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Power
  • Susceptible
  • Lure

• I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

  

  Donna Shalala