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.
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Of course I get hurt.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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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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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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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.
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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.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.
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I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.
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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.
