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Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman.

Huffington was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, which is now owned by AOL. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the late-1990s, she offered liberal points of view in public, while remaining involved in business endeavors. In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for governor in the California recall election and lost. In 2009, Huffington was #12 in Forbes's first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. She has also moved up to #42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List. As of 2014, she is listed by Forbes as the 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World.

In 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million, and made Huffington the President and Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included The Huffington Post and then-existing AOL properties including AOL Music, Engadget, Patch Media, and StyleList. On August 11, 2016, it was announced that she would step down from her role at The Huffington Post to devote her time to a new startup, Thrive Global, focused on health and wellness information.

✵ 15. July 1950  •  Other names آریانا هافینقتن, ଆରିଆନା ହୁଫିଙ୍ଗଟନ୍
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Famous Arianna Huffington Quotes

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”

Arianna Huffington

“Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”

Arianna Huffington

[The Female Woman, 1973, Davis-Poynter, London, ISBN 0706700988, unspecified page, unspecified chapter]

“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”

Arianna Huffington

“The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.”

Arianna Huffington

[Pigs at the Trough, 1st edition, 2003, Crown Publishers, New York, ISBN 1-4000-4771-4, unspecified page, unspecified chapter]

“America is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.”

Arianna Huffington

[How to Overthrow the Government, 1st edition, 2000, HarperCollins, New York, ISBN 0-06-039331-9, p. 174 of 317, The Quest for Leaders]

“Isn't it really, really offensive that our president is simply not telling us the truth about what's happening in Iraq? For me, that was one of the most offensive things about the entire convention. There was no truth-telling there. It was all a complete masquerade. Both about Iraq and about the domestic economy… The problem is not that the people think the Democratic Party is not sufficiently hawkish; it's the problem that they are not sufficiently bold and sufficiently visionary. They need to go back to Bobby Kennedy and 1968. That was the last time that a Democrat truly inspired red states and blue states and everybody and the millions of people out there.”

Arianna Huffington

Regarding the 2004 Republican National Convention and the problems facing the Democratic Party
Real Time with Bill Maher, 3 September 2004

“When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.”

Arianna Huffington

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, unspecified episode

“Don't forget: our media culture failed to serve the public interest by missing (with a few honourable exceptions) the two biggest stories of our time: the run-up to the Iraq war and the financial melt­down. We've had far too many autopsies and not enough biopsies.”

Arianna Huffington

"The paywall is history" The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/11/newspapers-web-media-pay-wall 11 May, 2009

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