Caroline Buchanan Quotes

I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.

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• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Trying
  • School
  • Law

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Want
  • Garden
  • I Can

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Taken
  • Math
  • Been

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

  

  Becky G
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Say

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Children
  • Future
  • Flowers

• We can only have true public safety with public trust.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • True
  • Trust
  • Safety

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  

  Don Young
  • Country
  • Why
  • Hand

• There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Fear
  • Circumstances
  • Dependent

• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  

  Bobbi Gibb
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Idea

• I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
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