Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Achievement
  • Year

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Red

• I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Science
  • Old
  • Pirate

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• Everybody has problems.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Problems
  • Everybody

• You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Education
  • Health
  • Goals

• The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • She
  • Book
  • Funny

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Money
  • Friends

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.

  

  Ben Brantley
  • History
  • Team
  • Passion

• I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

  

  Peter Facinelli

• I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Business

• If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • World
  • Believe
  • Fighting

• I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Job
  • Period

• It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

  

  James Otis
  • Men
  • Truth

• What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Remember
  • True
  • Girl

• I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Overcoming

• You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Sex

• The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Life
  • Music
  • She

• You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photographer
  • Saws
  • Print

• living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Purpose
  • Dying
  • Honorable