Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes

Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

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• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Great
  • America
  • Dress

• Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • School
  • Done
  • Sports

• The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Responsibility
  • Disney

• I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Life
  • Moral

• Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Reality

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

  

  David Amram
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Lots of people think that the Premier League would be good for me, but my mum is Spanish, and I really have that dream to play over there.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • People
  • Good
  • Dream

• If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Time
  • Boy

• These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.

  

  Corey Lewandowski

• In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Up
  • Character

• Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • May
  • Think
  • Feeling

• When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Brain
  • Clouds

• The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Brain
  • Weight
  • Cells

• The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Brain
  • Sound
  • Weight Of God

• Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Brain
  • Office