Jane Pauley Quotes
This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
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This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
