Jenna McCarthy Quotes

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Job
  • Day

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Worry

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Never
  • Pride
  • Away

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

  

  Annabella Sciorra
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Important

• I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Running
  • Disney

• There was a time, two or three centuries ago, when it looked as if the intellect might win over the body, and our species become something worthwhile. But too much procreation killed that illusion.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time

• More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Long
  • More
  • Away

• When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
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