209 Quotes by Tina Brown

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    Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

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    I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

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    I sat next to an actor who told me he didn't know anything about John Kerry except he had been a doctor. I realized it truly is another planet.

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    Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

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    The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

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    Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

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    The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.

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    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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