Katharine Graham Quotes
Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.
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I'm a healthy eater, but I don't consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
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Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
