Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Democracy

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Think
  • Father
  • Years

• If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Famous
  • Flying

• The wisdom of our ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Wisdom

• I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

  

  Jamie Zawinski

• Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Character
  • Know
  • Comedy

• When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Baseball
  • Confused

• I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

  

  Kelly Olynyk
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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