Katharine Graham Quotes

Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

Katharine Graham

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• You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

  Gary L. Francione
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• I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

  

  Ze Frank
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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
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• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
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• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
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• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
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• I love poker!

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  

  Bruce Sterling
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• Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.

  

  Katharine Graham
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