Catherine Mayer Quotes
It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
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If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
