Nancy Brinker Quotes

Also, the Race for the Cure and the other events that we have because our job is to celebrate hope and to give people a vision for the future, not to depress them all the time and say, you know, you’re gonna die from this.

Nancy Brinker

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• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • Like
  • Liberal

• I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Positive
  • Read

• The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Talk
  • Street
  • Hometown

• If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Business

• I always try to live in the moment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Try

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Health
  • Look

• I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Fall

• Ask me who I don't dress!

  

  Coco Chanel

• I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Training
  • Athlete

• I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.

  

  Angie Martinez
  • Hate

• My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Up
  • Air
  • Dance

• I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the reality some of our fellow citizens live with, and remaining quiet about it only aggravates their trauma.

  

  Jean-Francois Cope
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Racism

• As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • World
  • Live
  • Family

• We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

  

  Jamie Clayton
  • People
  • Good

• Strangely, you know, my parents, who left Poland separately and, you know, divorced, ended up marrying other people. But then they met again abroad, and they got together again.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Better
  • Australia

• There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Water

• I want my voice to have purpose.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Purpose

• Also, the Race for the Cure and the other events that we have because our job is to celebrate hope and to give people a vision for the future, not to depress them all the time and say, you know, you’re gonna die from this.

  

  Nancy Brinker
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future