Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Being a teenager, it's so hard to find foundation that's good for your skin for everyday wear.
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I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
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Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.
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My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).