Donna Shalala Quotes

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.

Donna Shalala

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1941

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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

John Fowles

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If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Meghan Daum

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I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Matt Groening

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I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Amy Winehouse

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But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

Jose Mourinho

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I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

Derek Jacobi

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Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Douglas Alexander

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If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Christiane Amanpour

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I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Bobby Womack

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I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

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A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Athol Fugard

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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.

Philip Reeve

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