Anne Sweeney Quotes

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Anne Sweeney

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
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• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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  • You

• With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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  • Water

• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
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  • Night

• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
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  • Feel
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• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Hand
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• The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Nice
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• I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

  

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  • Selfish

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

  

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• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  

  Van Jones
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• I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

  

  John Grisham

• I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Up
  • Done
  • Small

• I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

  

  Owen King
  • Life
  • Writing
  • True

• I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Giving
  • Control
  • Technology