Katharine Graham Quotes
Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
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I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
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Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
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Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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Being a woman in control of a company - even a small private company, as ours was then - was so singular and surprising in those days that I necessarily stood out. In 1963, and for the first several years of my working life, my situation was certainly unique.
