Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
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Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?
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You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
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My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
