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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Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.
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I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.
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Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
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My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.
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Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
