Lionel Barber Quotes
In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.
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I always played to win.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.
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In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for content within 12 months. Charging, I argued, would not only plug the revenue gap; it would also help to re-establish value in their news product.
