Katharine Viner Quotes
Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I hate competition.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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We have a Gujarat State Wide Area Network. The optical fibre network. We are the largest in Asia, number one. We are number one in Asia. And we are second largest in the world. Can you image how we are using the technology?
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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
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Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
