Katharine McPhee Quotes

I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

Katharine McPhee

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• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

  

  Iman
  • She
  • Age
  • Confidence

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Mistake
  • Worry

• I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Work
  • Think
  • Yourself

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Chance
  • First
  • Second Chance

• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Unexpected

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Boxing

• Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • More

• When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Family
  • Like
  • Others

• Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Care
  • Win
  • Environmental

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
  • Tomorrow

• Dear August.. .I want to start like a child, to express my impression in front of nature with three colors and a few lines, and then add to forms and colors, where it requires the expression, that the working process is only a dedication, and never a removal. Only we painters know how stupidly difficult this is.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Nature
  • Dedication
  • August

• Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Men
  • Women
  • Doubt

• I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Woman
  • Hollywood
  • Imitation

• I have a deep, scratchy voice. Boys would call me Froggy, and my father would often tell me to shut my 'big bazoo.' I remember standing in line for confession. After I walked out, the other kids were like, 'You punched your sister in the face?' Because of my voice, my confession was like speaking into a loudspeaker.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Voice
  • Kid
  • Loudspeaker

• I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

  

  Katharine McPhee