Katharine Weymouth Quotes
It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.
