Catherine Ashton Quotes
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
Quotes to Explore
-
We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
-
If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
-
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
-
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
-
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
-
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
-
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
-
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
-
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
-
I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
-
I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
-
I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
-
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
-
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
-
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
-
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
-
When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
-
Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".
-
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
-
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.
-
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
