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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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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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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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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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.
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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.
