Colleen Haskell Quotes

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

Colleen Haskell

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• I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sleep

• Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Home
  • Cooking

• Fashion is not enough anymore. It's not just about what you wear. I mean, I don't know how many women can afford to take the time to come to Paris for three fittings.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

  

  Chance The Rapper

• I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Job
  • Death
  • Forever

• You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• Baseball is a game of inches.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Game
  • Baseball

• It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • Prince

• Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • Live
  • Home

• When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Bee

• If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

  

  Nguyen Cao Ky
  • People
  • World
  • American

• Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

  

  Deryck Whibley Sum 41
  • Green

• The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Women
  • Language
  • Luminous

• For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

  

  Ellen Hopkins
  • Camping

• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Movie

• I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Camping