Tina Brown Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Tina Brown
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag. — Tina Brown
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
Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. — Tina Brown
One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine. — Tina Brown
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. — Tina Brown
Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him? — Tina Brown
No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton. — Tina Brown
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. — Tina Brown
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? — Tina Brown
What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. — Tina Brown
There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. — Tina Brown
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
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. — Tina Brown
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. — Tina Brown
Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out. — Tina Brown
Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation through Congress required so many political tradeoffs and so many unavoidable deals with so many vested interests. But that's no excuse. — Tina Brown
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
The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors. — Tina Brown
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. — Tina Brown
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization. — Tina Brown
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity. — Tina Brown
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
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. — Tina Brown
What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace. — Tina Brown
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. — Tina Brown
Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. — Tina Brown
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections. — Tina Brown
When you truly study top performers in any field, what sets them apart is not their physical skill; it is how they control their minds. — Tina Brown
Being president, you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover that you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. You're hamstrung in ways you never dreamed of. — Tina Brown
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
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work. — Tina Brown
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. — Tina Brown
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. — Tina Brown
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
In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. — Tina Brown
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. — Tina Brown
I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries. — Tina Brown
I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.' — Tina Brown
Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan ... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things. — Tina Brown
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks. — Tina Brown
Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms. — Tina Brown
To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security. — Tina Brown
Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you. — Tina Brown
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. — Tina Brown
Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song. — Tina Brown
It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. — Tina Brown
More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men. — Tina Brown
I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna. — Tina Brown
What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch. — Tina Brown
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
'America' is synonymous with opportunity. — Tina Brown
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
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
Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst. — Tina Brown
The digital explosion has been so explosive. — Tina Brown
By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.' — Tina Brown
We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet. — Tina Brown
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. — Tina Brown
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. — Tina Brown
Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore. — Tina Brown
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. — Tina Brown
Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. — Tina Brown
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. — Tina Brown
It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. — Tina Brown
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package. — Tina Brown
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
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. — Tina Brown
'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box. — Tina Brown
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? — Tina Brown
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. — Tina Brown
Wearing hats has become like fine art for me. — Tina Brown
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. — Tina Brown
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
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit. — Tina Brown
Servility always curdles into rage in the end. — Tina Brown
For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders. — Tina Brown
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. — Tina Brown
You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact. — Tina Brown
In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular. — Tina Brown
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it. — Tina Brown
Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. — Tina Brown
Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. — Tina Brown
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights. — Tina Brown
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs. — Tina Brown
After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. — Tina Brown
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever. — Tina Brown
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? — Tina Brown