Erin McKean Quotes
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.Erin McKean
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
Jack Dorsey -
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt -
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston -
There's room for role models who make mistakes.
Taylor Swift -
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
Cameron Diaz
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks -
If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
Laura Wasser -
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh -
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You work for whatever you get in life.
Karl Malone -
Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'
Bassem Youssef
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
Alexander Skarsgard -
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
Claes Oldenburg -
People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.
Jeanne Phillips -
Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Christy Turlington -
Global competition is about winners and losers.
David Korten
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Fashion anticipates.
Oleg Cassini -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.
Busy Philipps -
I definitely am a Twihard!
Janel Parrish -
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
Erin McKean