Sarah Kay Quotes

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

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• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

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• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

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• Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

  

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• The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

  

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• I'm learning every day.

  

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• I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

  

  Jack Palance
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• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
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• During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • World
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• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Copy
  • Secretary
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• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Game
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• Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Thinking
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• In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
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• When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • World
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• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  

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• In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

  

  Katie Hafner
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• Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Oblivion
  • Futility
  • Chores

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

  

  James Madison
  • Charity

• If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Daughter