Katie Couric Quotes

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Always
  • Been
  • Enthusiastic

• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Always
  • Connection

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Me
  • Say
  • Wrong

• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pop

• We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Wish
  • Amazing

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Action
  • Learn
  • Seeing

• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Him

• You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Mind
  • Want
  • End

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Movies
  • Original

• In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Die

• Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Important
  • Study

• When people have a MakerBot, they have a different mindset from everybody else who grew up as a consumer. Instead of thinking, 'I need to go buy that,' they first think, 'Do I need to go buy that? I could just MakerBot that.'

  

  Bre Pettis
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

  

  Kay Granger
  • Character
  • Control

• When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.

  

  John Spencer No Doubt
  • Drink
  • Playing Guitar
  • Feels Goog

• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Why

• I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

  

  Kamala Harris

• You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

  

  Katie Couric