Katherine McCoy Quotes
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.
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If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."
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I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
