Donna Shalala Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
-
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
-
The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
-
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
-
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
-
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
-
I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
-
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
-
I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
-
I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
-
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-
My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
-
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
-
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
-
I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.
-
You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.
-
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
-
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
-
It's been interesting for me because when I served in government before, I served in the White House. This time, I ended up serving in an agency, and it just made me respect and admire how much happens and that happens every day with people who don't even know all the work that's going on.
-
I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
