Katrina Mayer Quotes
When I was younger I thought I was supposed to make everyone happy. I worked hard at it, but it never worked and people didn't appreciate it anyway. So, now I make myself happy and everyone around me is happier, too!
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.
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When I was younger I thought I was supposed to make everyone happy. I worked hard at it, but it never worked and people didn't appreciate it anyway. So, now I make myself happy and everyone around me is happier, too!
