Katharine Weymouth Quotes
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.
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Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.
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Part of my job is to make the tough calls.
