Katharine Lee Bates Quotes
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
