Jennifer McMahon Quotes

My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.

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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Brainy

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Science
  • Research
  • Boat

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • History
  • Creative
  • Looking

• Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • American
  • Style
  • Creative

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Distance

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hope
  • Vision

• I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Freedom
  • Small
  • Moral

• Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Perfect
  • Idea
  • Situation

• I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

  

  Ali MacGraw
  • People
  • Famous

• If a way to a man’s heart was through his stomach, surely the way to a mother’s heart was through her children.

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Mother

• My mother taught me to believe in ghosts: to use a Ouija board, have seances, and leave little offerings out for those who have passed.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Believe
  • Mother