Emily Giffin Quotes
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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A will finds a way.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.
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For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
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People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
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The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.
