Katharine Viner Quotes
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I hate the domestic life.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
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Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
