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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.
People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.
The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.
Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news.
I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.
Gym memberships and personal trainers can be very expensive, but they're not required for getting the body you want.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.
I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.
"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.
I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
While you may watch what you eat, food is only half the battle. Liquid calories count just as much - maybe even more!
In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.
Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.
Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.
Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.
John Lewis did more in one day on The Edmund Pettus Bridge than Donald Trump ever will do to make America great again.
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.