Katharine Viner Quotes
My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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I say this all the time: Everyone can make a conscious choice to be a leader.
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I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.
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There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.
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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
