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People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.
Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.
I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.
Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
There are several occasions in the course of any woman's day when, without question, screaming is the appropriate response.
It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
All left-wing activists, whether it be WTO, anti-WTO, or anti-war, are idealistic as framed by the Democratic Media Complex.
There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.
What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.
Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.
The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.
One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.
Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.
With its emphasis on star power, the Obama campaign from Day One emphasized the candidate's perfectly cut presidential presence.
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.
Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.
After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.
Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.
Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.