Catherine Bertini (Catherine "Cathy" Bertini) Quotes
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.
