Katharine Graham Quotes
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
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I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.
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Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
