Tina Brown Quotes

Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse.

Tina Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1953

Topics

PoliticalCongressThroughComplex

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

Robert Jackson

ProblemWithoutBeingAvoidDrawn

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

PeopleSocietyRichEnjoyPoorNeed

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

John Roberts

GoodPeopleSocietyOwnThingsFail

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

Troy Carter

WorldMinorityAgainstVenture

I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare kind of thing to have that level of wisdom. And his lyrics are just astounding; everything in life is inside his lyrics.

Matt Bellamy

LifeLoveWisdomMeThinkArtist

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

Dee Dee Myers

HoneymoonZeroAbsolutelyNoneHad

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

Chris Evans

GreatSometimesPress

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

Christopher Reeve

ManSchoolMeActingProfessional

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

LifeOpportunityHistorySpaceEarly

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

Boy George

PeopleMeMoreThingsOnlyAware

If the asset solves a real problem for a real customer, then there'll be value in the asset.

Brad Garlinghouse

ValueProblemCustomerRealAsset

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

Allan McNish

DrivingRacingYearAirportMiles

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