Kathrine Switzer Quotes

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

Kathrine Switzer

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Person
  • Battle

• My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fun

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Fame

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.

  

  Billy Eichner

• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Afraid
  • Own
  • Shadows

• There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Mind
  • Knows
  • Determine

• All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Courage
  • Yourself
  • Front