Carolyn Mackler Quotes

While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.

Carolyn Mackler

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Live
  • Mind
  • May

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Child

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Want
  • Communication
  • Without

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Cute

• So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Own
  • Praise
  • Others

• The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

  

  Hal David
  • Art
  • Always
  • Talent

• The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Important
  • Way
  • Positive

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death

• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Nature
  • Painting

• But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Together
  • Fire

• If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

  

  Drew Carey
  • Fly
  • Mess
  • Frogs

• OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • People
  • God
  • Religious

• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  

  Nigel Lythgoe
  • People
  • Artist
  • Chance

• It's awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I'm not on the same wavelength.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Up
  • Friends

• While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • People
  • Children
  • Books