Katharine Weymouth Quotes
I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
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I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.
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But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
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My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
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I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
