Catherine Mayer Quotes
As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.
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As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.
