Anne Sweeney Quotes
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
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There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.
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If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and better.
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There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
