Katharine Weymouth Quotes

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

Katharine Weymouth

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MotherDinnerNightSoupSundayShe

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Anna Deavere Smith

JobThinkYouActingDisappear

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Jeff Garcia

LifeThinkYouPreciousAwayTaken

At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Michael Dirda

MomentMeUnderstandingMoreCapable

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Steven Pinker

TruthTimeSimplePeopleHypocrisy

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

Tomas Berdych

SpaceYouTennisAlwaysPrettyBig

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

NatureBusinessPeopleManagement

I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day... And it's a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys.

Michael Pollan

DayPeopleBakingEvery DayUpGuy

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

Mohamed ElBaradei

GoodSmallTalkSmall TalkTalker

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

Drew Bledsoe

LifeSmileGoodGood HealthHealth

A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag.

Christina Binkley

WomenManEyeEnvyLostJacket

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

Chrystia Freeland

PeopleHurtPovertyYouTalkMiddle

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

Chrystia Freeland

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