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.
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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.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his 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.
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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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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.
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I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.
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(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.
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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.
