Catherine Killigrew Quotes
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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It worked!
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.
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'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
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'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.
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People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.
