Abigail McCarthy Quotes

Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

Abigail McCarthy

• Democracy
• Growth
• Division

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• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Know
  • Bright

• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Careful

• In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • Live
  • Together

• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Sex

• I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Done
  • Christmas
  • Everyone

• In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • May
  • Culture

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Up
  • Why
  • Fighting

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Purpose

• Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Death
  • Dying

• I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.

  

  Eminem
  • Blue

• We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Source
  • Hindsight
  • Fertile

• I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya

• The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Growth
  • Survival
  • Hug

• Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

  

  Abigail McCarthy
  • Democracy
  • Growth
  • Division