Catherine the Great Quotes
Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Quotes to Explore
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
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'One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.
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To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
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I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
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The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
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Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
