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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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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.

  

  Vidya Balan
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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!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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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.

  

  Washington Irving
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• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
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• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
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• A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.

  

  Edgar Winter
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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.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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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?

  

  Yoon Ahn
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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.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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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.

  

  R. Kelly
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• The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
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• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
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• To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  

  John Ruskin
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• Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

  

  John Sebastian
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• Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

  

  W. H. Auden
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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.

  

  Katharine Weymouth
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