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
  • Active
  • Percent

• 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

• I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Live
  • Leader
  • Shows

• I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Past

• My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Tree

• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Laws
  • Against
  • Religions

• One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.

  

  Curt Coffman
  • People
  • Focus
  • Practice

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

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Friends
  • Make
  • Destroy