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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course I get hurt.
-
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
-
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
-
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
-
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.
-
It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
-
I know nothing about technology.
-
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
-
We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
-
You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
-
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
-
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
-
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
-
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
-
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.
