Katharine Graham Quotes
Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The assumption of perfectly rational, maximizing behavior won out until recently in the art of modeling, not because it often reflects reality, but because it was useful.
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Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.
