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" I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. "
Tina Brown
Thinking
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" It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. "
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" The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions. "
Tina Brown
You
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Wish
" Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' "
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School
Old
Public Service
" Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. "
Tina Brown
Outfits
Editorial
Advertising
" One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't. "
Tina Brown
Box
People
Thinking
" The Duke of York has never remarried. "
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Duke
York
Never
" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "
Tina Brown
Poet
Permission
Courage
" Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. "
Tina Brown
Smile
Relaxing
Weapon
" I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. "
Tina Brown
Think
Write
Web
" Hillary Clinton has spent her entire career looking bug-eyed with incredulity when an interviewer asks her whatever question she most expects at that moment. "
Tina Brown
Looking
She
Career
" Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. "
Tina Brown
Strategy
System
Weakness
" Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? "
Tina Brown
New York
Women
Street
" The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished. "
Tina Brown
Us
Question
He
" Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. "
Tina Brown
Life
Reputation
Every Day
" Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. "
Tina Brown
Jefferson
Survival
Skills
" The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd. "
Tina Brown
Me
Said
Princess
" Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. "
Tina Brown
Connection
She
Powerful
" TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. "
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Because
More
Business
" I don't actually go to newsstands anymore. "
Tina Brown
Actually
Anymore
Go
" It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product. "
Tina Brown
Interesting
Product
Who
" Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. "
Tina Brown
Management
Business
His
" The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. "
Tina Brown
Royal
Beautiful
British
" 'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. "
Tina Brown
Daily
Beast
Media
" The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. "
Tina Brown
Fire
Ideas
Social Media
" Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty. "
Tina Brown
Mysterious
Days
Celebrity
" The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.' "
Tina Brown
Post
Way
Washington
" Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon. "
Tina Brown
You
She
Stop
" Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to. "
Tina Brown
Top
Bank
Talk
" Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. "
Tina Brown
Management
Ideas
Nice
" In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money. "
Tina Brown
Money
Today
People