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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.
The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.
Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.
You know it's time to step back and take a long, hard look at yourself when a New York City cabbie is giving you life advice.
Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.
I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.
There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.
I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.
Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.
Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.
See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.
Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies I love women. I love to spend more time with them.
Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.
Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people.
There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.
It's essential that the media is sober and intentional in everything they do, and that's something we should all keep top of mind.
People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.
I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way.
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen