Sally Quinn Quotes

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• ... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

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  Writing, Government, People

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• We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

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  Needs, World, Grows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

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  One Day, Matter, Matter Of Time

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

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  Believe, Important, Behave

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

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  Years, People, Crowds

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• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

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  People

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• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

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  Imagine, Newspapers, Junkie

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

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  Religious, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

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  Sports, Football, Pain

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• Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

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  Polls, Democrat, Shows

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• Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

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  Circles, Administration, Wagons

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• Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

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  Different, Way, Different Ways

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

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  Believe, World, I Believe

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

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  Home, Wine, Glasses

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

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  Running, Climbing, Two

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• That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

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  Seekers, Decided

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

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  Motivation, Ambition, People

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

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  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

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  Christian, Morning, Posts

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• I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

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  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

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  Position Of Power, People, House

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• The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

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  Running, People, Black

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• Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

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  Husband, Interesting, Advice

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

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  Thinking, White, People

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• I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

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  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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