Gina McCarthy Quotes

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

Gina McCarthy

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LoveStartProcessRoomWhereOff

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Maya Angelou

MyselfHumilityPeopleMeSomeone

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

BeautifulOptimismUglyBelief

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

Stella Young

MotherAgeMePlumberUpGoing

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Robert Frost

InjusticeMercyNothingMakeJust

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Masaharu Morimoto

TimeFoodSchoolHigh SchoolLearn

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

Luc de Clapiers

LiveGreatDieGreat ThingsNever

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Ludwig van Beethoven

OpportunityDeathHappySufferingMe

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

FatherDreamsTimeMindPolitical

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

Christina Ricci

LifeMeWellBeenLedReally

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

Sebastian Junger

LifeValueEthicsMindConflictYou

I'm not looking to be dominating all the media outlets ... to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I'm not your guy. I'm not going to be 'the black Republican'. I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish.

Tim Scott

LookingBlackMediaAccomplishWant

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

Marina Abramovic

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