Geraldine Laybourne Quotes

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

Geraldine Laybourne

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Help
  • Girl

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• It's important to keep your power and not give it up.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Important
  • Power

• When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Find
  • First
  • Everything

• While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Good
  • Think
  • Human

• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Water

• I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Eyes
  • I Can

• The roughest road often leads to the top.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Road
  • Top

• The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

  

  Larry Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • She
  • Happy
  • Bill

• There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Want
  • Office
  • Ass

• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

  

  Drew Houston
  • Work
  • Business
  • Period

• I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Problem
  • Social
  • Doors

• When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Face

• We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Imagine
  • Glimmer
  • Dense

• Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Creativity
  • Pleasure

• I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

  

  Geraldine Laybourne
  • Imagine
  • Office
  • Numbers