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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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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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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The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
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Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
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To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.
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Camila Cabello did an amazing job with 'Havana.' It's Spanish, but it's English.
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Part of my job is to make the tough calls.
