Katharine Whitehorn Quotes
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
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The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
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No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
