Katharine Graham Quotes
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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My family are my friends.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
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Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
