Sally Quinn Quotes

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

  Sally Quinn

  Needs, World, Grows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Writing, Government, People

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

  Sally Quinn

  One Day, Matter, Matter Of Time

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Sally Quinn

  Religious, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Sally Quinn

  People

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

  Sally Quinn

  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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• 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.

  Sally Quinn

  Husband, Interesting, Advice

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

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• Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

  Sally Quinn

  Different, Way, Different Ways

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

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• It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

  Sally Quinn

  Views, Fundamentalist Religion, Class

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

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Mother, Religious, Father

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

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• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  Sally Quinn

  Thinking, Roles, Growing

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

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

  Sally Quinn

  Believe, Important, Behave

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  Sally Quinn

  Pigs, Two, Ongoing

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

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

  Sally Quinn

  Sports, Football, Pain

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Thinking, White, People

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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

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• Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

  Sally Quinn

  Polls, Democrat, Shows

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Years, People, Crowds

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

  Sally Quinn

  Circles, Administration, Wagons

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• Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

  Sally Quinn

  Silence, Needs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Believe, World, I Believe

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

  Sally Quinn

  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.

  Sally Quinn

  Running, Climbing, Two

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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.

  Sally Quinn

  Motivation, Ambition, People

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

  Sally Quinn

  Christian, Morning, Posts

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