Katharine Graham Quotes

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

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• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

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• For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

  

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• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

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• Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

  

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• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

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• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

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• I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
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• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

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• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

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• I know nothing about technology.

  

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• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  

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• We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.

  

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• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
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• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

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• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

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• Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

  

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• Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

  

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• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

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• The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Years

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

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• The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Women
  • Power
  • Sex