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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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 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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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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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.
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The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.
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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.
