Katherine Waterston Quotes

I think there's an assumption when you have a parent in the business that you're given some kind of a cheat sheet at an early age. Some kind of upper hand or some kind of advanced understanding of how the whole thing functions - maybe how to operate within it. I never felt I received that cheat sheet and grew up pretty removed from the business.

Katherine Waterston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: March 3, 1980

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I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

Jenna Dewan

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Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller

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They were totally uplifting my work and gave me a platform, and now I have an ongoing relationship with the White House. We're working on some very, very, very big things for the trans community.

Angelica Ross

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I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Steve Jobs

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Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Steven Johnson

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Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.

Steve Rushin

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot

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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.

Michele Bachmann

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That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

Miriam Hopkins

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I'm so sick of the water.

Michael Phelps

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In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

Miriam Toews

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I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

Mo Ibrahim

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