Dana Milbank Quotes
Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
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Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.
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The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
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Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.
