Marissa Jaret Winokur Quotes

I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Daily
  • Forget

• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Humanity
  • Daily
  • Dreams

• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Up
  • World
  • Culture

• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Daily

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Man
  • Daily
  • Iron

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Push

• The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Best
  • Daily

• I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Singing
  • Forever
  • Daily

• In some ways, Australian fans are more dedicated and more enthusiastic than some of our most loyal fans in the U.S.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Fans
  • More
  • Enthusiastic

• If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Mind
  • Daily
  • Bored

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Women
  • Daily
  • More

• Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

  

  Alveda King
  • God
  • Believe
  • Worry

• My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Learning

• There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankerer Till he sowed his wild oats With the help of a goat But he didn’t even stop to thankera.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Help
  • Stop

• I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Work

• I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Daily