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Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations. ”
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others. ”
You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us. ”
I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.' ”
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.' ”
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present. ”
She grounded me. I have become very disciplined now. I would never have written the books without her. Definitely the cleverest thing I ever did was to marry Santa. Maybe it's the only clever thing I did. ”
Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else. ”
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. ”
I don't feel that Jewish people have a class. ”