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

• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Nature
  • Age
  • Control

• 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

• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Long
  • Betrayal
  • Betrayed

• 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

• Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

  

  James Stewart
  • Eternity
  • Concerned
  • Believer

• 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

• Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Needs
  • Born
  • Stills

• I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • American
  • Pretty

• The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • People
  • Reason
  • Shows

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

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Stills
  • Class
  • Citizens