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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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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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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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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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.
