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.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • True
  • Dream
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Women
  • Politics

• If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Money

• The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Strenght
  • Freeman
  • Hindered

• 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.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Humans
  • Perception
  • Consciousness

• It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

  

  Sophocles
  • Born
  • Return
  • Came

• If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Want
  • First
  • Give

• What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

  

  Jim Thorpe
  • Team
  • Baseball
  • Class

• Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Stills
  • Nelson

• “Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • True

• It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Stills
  • Class
  • Citizens