Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

Elizabeth McCracken

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Long
  • Family
  • Together

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• Sugar is the new tobacco.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon

• It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Work

• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Song

• I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Work