Anya Kamenetz Quotes
We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.

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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
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I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.
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At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.
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I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total!
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We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.