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Cecile Richards Quotes

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all of us.

Cecile Richards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1958

Topics

Women Color Country Up Us Save

I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story.

Good Me Story Thinking Help Career

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

Music Time Early Country Radio Days

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.

Character Travel I Am Planning Doing

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

Accounting Employees Company Up Idea

We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care for full-throated operatic singing. And why should it? Down through the ages, it has been the simple song which has lived and continues to touch the heart of humanity. And so it is with singing.

Heart Simple People Singing Song

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Miranda Cosgrove

Time Me Reading Thinking Someone

If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.

Goals Happy Me Team Win Think

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Together Poetry Memory Go Matter

The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That's what happens. That's the real story.

Story Real Make Happens UFC Makes

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Birthday Children Responsibility You

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.

Family Good Mother Musicians Long

Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

Great You Living Dancing Room Your

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