Katrina Mayer Quotes
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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.
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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.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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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.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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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.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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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.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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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.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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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?
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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.'
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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
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In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
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I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.
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For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax.
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
