Katrina Mayer Quotes

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Katrina Mayer

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• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Dance

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Teachers

• Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Ancestors

• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • People
  • Music
  • Friendship

• What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • English

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Percent
  • Active

• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Myself

• That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Medals

• Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Why
  • Dream

• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Name
  • News
  • Jazz

• By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Time
  • Age
  • Travel

• However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

  

  Kenzaburo Oe
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Life
  • Moving
  • I Think

• The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Book
  • Kids

• There are certain things that I might not watch, and, in fact, some things that I've done I don't watch because it's not my cup of tea, I guess.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Done
  • Tea

• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Experiences
  • Generations
  • Necessity

• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Friends
  • Make
  • Destroy