Dana Milbank Quotes
Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I'm not politically correct.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I love playing odd roles.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
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Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.
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Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.
