Catherine McAuley Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
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They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
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It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
