Katharine McPhee Quotes
I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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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.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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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.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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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.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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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.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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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.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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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.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'
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Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.
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I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.
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Lysander said, 'Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's.'
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If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.
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I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.
