Emily Giffin Quotes
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.
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The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
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I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
