Emily Giffin Quotes
I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.Emily Giffin
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov -
My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo -
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
J. D. Salinger -
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
Olesya Rulin -
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
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I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik -
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams -
I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
Natalie Cole -
The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
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The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Lysander Spooner -
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
Charles de Gaulle -
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
Arthur Peacocke -
Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.
Janet Yellen -
I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
Emily Giffin